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Talk: Infinity
September 5, 2024
August 25, 2021
July 31, 2018
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→Bernhard Riemann: noun, not adjective
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→Bernhard Riemann: I should be surprised that someone who claims to be able to identify the greatest modern mathematician just by looking on a chart of published papers knows so little about the
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→Bernhard Riemann: Note that Merriam-Webster says the term infinitesimal did not exist in English until the early 1700s, which would have been late in the game for Newton
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July 30, 2018
→Bernhard Riemann
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→Bernhard Riemann: Not sure if there is a meaningful distinction here. Infinitely small is inherently a limit. But you make a very interesting point and I'll think about it further. Also, did Euler, Leibniz or Newton use the concept of infinitesima
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→Bernhard Riemann: new section
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