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Three case studies in current Leibniz scholarship

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Abstract

We examine some recent scholarship on Leibniz's philosophy of the infinitesimal calculus. We indicate difficulties that arise in articles by Bassler, Knobloch, and Arthur, due to a denial to Leibniz's infinitesimals of the status of mathematical entities violating Euclid V Definition 4.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2201.02047,
  title  = {Three case studies in current Leibniz scholarship},
  author = {Mikhail G. Katz and Karl Kuhlemann and David Sherry and Monica Ugaglia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2201.02047},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

19 pages, to appear in Antiquitates Mathematicae

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