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Universality versus Generality: An Interpretation of the Dispute over Tangents between Descartes and Fermat (2016)

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Authors & Contributors
Rashed, Roshdi
Martínez-Adame, Carmen
Felgner, U.
Ekeberg, Bjorn
Weinrich, Klaus
Viader, Pelegrí
Journals
Historia Scientiarum: International Journal of the History of Science Society of Japan
Revue d'Histoire des Sciences
Sudhoffs Archiv: Zeitschrift fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Revue d'Histoire des Mathématiques
NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin
Nei Menggu Shifan Daxue Xuebao (Ziran Kexue Ban)
Publishers
University of Victoria (Canada)
Steiner
Presses Universitaires Blaise Pascal
Olms
E. Rauner Verlag
Basic Books
Concepts
Mathematics
Optics
Geometry
Physics
Number theory; number concept
Probability and statistics
People
Fermat, Pierre de
Descartes, René
Pascal, Blaise
Gauss, Carl Friedrich
Wallis, John
Leibniz, Gottfried Wilhelm von
Time Periods
17th century
19th century
18th century
20th century
Places
France
Great Britain
Institutions
Large Hadron Collider (LHC)
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