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'Cours d'Analyse', 'Letters to Bentley' and 'Letters to Antoine Arnauld'
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / a. Numbers
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We can talk of 'innumerable number', about the infinite points on a line [Newton]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / a. Units
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There is no multiplicity without true units [Leibniz]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / a. The Infinite
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Not all infinites are equal [Newton]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / k. Infinitesimals
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Values that approach zero, becoming less than any quantity, are 'infinitesimals' [Cauchy]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / l. Limits
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When successive variable values approach a fixed value, that is its 'limit' [Cauchy]
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