TITLE

# Infinitesimals and the continuum

AUTHOR(S)
Bell, John L.
PUB. DATE
March 1995
SOURCE
Mathematical Intelligencer;Spring95, Vol. 17 Issue 2, p55
SOURCE TYPE
DOC. TYPE
Article
ABSTRACT
Focuses on infinitesimals and the continuum. Insights from Charles Sanders Pierce; Significance of synthetic differential geometry; Definition of infinitesimals and continua.
ACCESSION #
9508012236

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