But that this form of introduction into the differential calculus can make no claim to being scientific, no one will deny. For myself this feeling of dissatisfaction was so overpowering that I made the fixed resolve to keep meditating on the question... A History of Abstract Algebra - Page 126by Israel Kleiner - 2007 - 168 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| William Bragg Ewald - Mathematics - 2005 - 710 pages
...standpoint, and indeed it is indispensable, if one does not wish to lose too much time. But no one will deny that this form of introduction into the differential calculus can make no claim to being scientific. For myself this feeling of dissatisfaction was so overpowering that I resolved to meditate on the question... | |
| Arthur B. Powell, Marilyn Frankenstein - Mathematics - 1997 - 468 pages
...lessons he had recourse to geometrical evidence to explain the notion of a limit; then he went on: But that this form of introduction into the differential...should find a purely arithmetic and perfectly rigorous foundations for the principles of infinitesimal calculus." This led Dedekind to a new axiomatic approach... | |
| Stewart Shapiro - Philosophy - 1997 - 296 pages
...intuition in a first presentation of the differential calculus I regard as extremely useful. . . . But that this form of introduction into the differential...make no claim to being scientific no one will deny. . . . The statement is so frequently made that the differential calculus deals with continuous magnitude,... | |
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