Conflicts between generalization, rigor, and intuition : number concepts underlying the development of analysis in 17th-19th century France and Germany / Gert Schubring.

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Published: New York : Springer, c2005.
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Series:Sources and studies in the history of mathematics and physical sciences
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245 1 0 |a Conflicts between generalization, rigor, and intuition :  |b number concepts underlying the development of analysis in 17th-19th century France and Germany /  |c Gert Schubring. 
260 |a New York :  |b Springer,  |c c2005. 
300 |a xiv, 678 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 25 cm. 
440 0 |a Sources and studies in the history of mathematics and physical sciences 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [631]-670) and index. 
505 0 0 |g I.  |t Question and method --  |g II.  |t Paths toward algebraization - development to the eighteenth century, the number field --  |g III.  |t Paths toward algebraization - the field of limits : the development of infinitely small quantities --  |g IV.  |t Culmination of algebraization and Retour du Refoule --  |g V.  |t Le Retour du Refoule : from the perspective of mathematical concepts --  |g VI.  |t Cauchy's compromise concept --  |g VII.  |t Development of pure mathematics in Prussia/Germany --  |g VIII.  |t Conflicts between confinement to geometry and algebraization in France. 
650 0 |a Mathematical analysis  |z History  |y 18th century. 
650 0 |a Mathematical analysis  |z History  |y 19th century. 
650 0 |a Numbers, Negative  |x History. 
650 0 |a Calculus  |x History. 
650 0 |a Mathematics  |z France  |x History. 
650 0 |a Mathematics  |z Germany  |x History. 
991 |a 2005-10-04 
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