| Pioneer | Journal where reappraisal appeared | Title | Link to article containing reappraisal | ||||||||||||||||
| Gottfried Leibniz | Notices AMS | "Leibniz's laws of continuity and homogeneity" | 12e | ||||||||||||||||
| Gottfried Leibniz | Erkenntnis | "Leibniz's infinitesimals: Their fictionality, their modern implementations, and their foes from Berkeley to Russell and beyond" | 13f | ||||||||||||||||
| Gottfried Leibniz | Studia Leibnitiana | "Infinitesimals, imaginaries, ideals, and fictions" | 14c | ||||||||||||||||
| Gottfried Leibniz | HOPOS | "Leibniz versus Ishiguro: Closing a Quarter Century of Syncategoremania" | 16a | ||||||||||||||||
| Gottfried Leibniz | Mat. Stud.| "Leibniz's well-founded
fictions and their interpretations" | 18a |
Gottfried Leibniz | British Journal for the History of
Mathematics | "Procedures of Leibnizian infinitesimal calculus:
An account in three modern
frameworks" | 21a |
Gottfried Leibniz | Antiquitates
Mathematicae | "Three studies in current Leibniz
scholarship" | 21g |
Gottfried Leibniz | Review of Symbolic Logic |
"Leibniz on bodies and infinities: rerum natura and
mathematical fictions"
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22a |
Gottfried Leibniz | The Mathematical Intelligencer |
"Two-track depictions of Leibniz's fictions"
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22b |
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G. W. Leibniz (1646-1716) wrote in a 14/24 june 1695 letter
to l'Hospital:
"I use the term incomparable magnitudes to
refer to [magnitudes] of which one multiplied by any finite number
whatsoever, will be unable to exceed the other, in the same way
[adopted by] Euclid in the fifth definition of the fifth book
[of The Elements]."
In modern editions of The Elements, the definition of
comparability appears in Book V, Definition 4.
See also
Salvaging Leibniz
Stevin
Fermat
Euler
Cauchy
Riemann
Cantor
Skolem
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