infinitesimal analysis

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infinitesimal analysis (uncountable)

  1. (archaic, calculus) calculus
    • 1816, John Playfair, Dissertation on the Progress of Mathematical and Physical Science since the Revival of Letters in Europe:
      Of the new or infinitesimal analysis, we are to consider Sir Isaac Newton as the first inventor, Leibnitz, a German philosopher, as the second; ...
  2. (mathematics, mathematical analysis) a systematic employment of infinitesimals that reduces calculus to algebra; nonstandard analysis.
    • 1998, John L. Bell, A Primer of Infinitesimal Analysis.:
    • 2002, E.I. Gordon, A.G. Kusraev, S.S. Kutateladze, Infinitesimal Analysis:
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