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Infinitesimal calculus   /ˌɪnfɪnɪtˈɛsɪməl kˈælkjələs/   Listen
Infinitesimal calculus

noun
1.
The branch of mathematics that is concerned with limits and with the differentiation and integration of functions.  Synonym: calculus.





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... to throw a cloud of mystery over the 'higher' branches of Mathematics, have been finally dissipated by the discovery that the 'infinite' is readily definable in purely ordinal terms and that the 'infinitesimal' does not really enter into the misnamed 'Infinitesimal Calculus' at all. Arithmetic and the theory of serial order have been shown to be the sufficient basis of the whole science which, as Plato long ago remarked, is 'very inappropriately called geometry'. A resume of the work which has been thus ...
— Recent Developments in European Thought • Various


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