This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In this paper, we endeavour to give a historically accurate presentation of how Leibniz understood his infinitesimals, and how he justified ...

IN the evolution of the teaching of mathematics, many thoughtful teachers frequently examine critically the basic concepts of the subject in order to make quite sure that the edifice they are ...

THE author of this little book writes as if it were the first of its kind, and in encouraging his readers he continually jeers at the professional mathematician in whatmight be regarded as reckless ...

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C. --When Isaac Newton formulated the laws of motion during the late 17th century, he had to use the language of geometry to communicate the ideas of differential calculus to ...

Marx's «blitzkrieg» on mathematics failed. His study of it lasted more than 30 years. At first it was only sporadic, on an ad hoc basis, and only in the 1870s did it take on a systematic character.

In order to better understand capitalism, Karl Marx taught himself parts of algebra and calculus. Nevertheless, he was not a mathematical genius. The historian of science and mathematician Annette ...