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Full Idea
Weierstrass effectively eliminated the infinitesimalist language of his predecessors.
Gist of Idea
Weierstrass eliminated talk of infinitesimals
Source
report of Karl Weierstrass (works [1855]) by Philip Kitcher - The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge 10.6
Book Ref
Kitcher,Philip: 'The Nature of Mathematical Knowledge' [OUP 1984], p.259
18092 | Weierstrass made limits central, but the existence of limits still needed to be proved [Weierstrass, by Bostock] |
18086 | Weierstrass eliminated talk of infinitesimals [Weierstrass, by Kitcher] |