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Ideas of Augustin-Louis Cauchy, by Text

[French, 1789 - 1857, Professor at École Polytechnique.]

1821	Cours d'Analyse

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p.247

18085

Values that approach zero, becoming less than any quantity, are 'infinitesimals'

p.19

p.247

18084

When successive variable values approach a fixed value, that is its 'limit'