• amongst modern scholars about the exact meaning of Fermat's adequality. Fermat's adequality was analyzed in a number of scholarly studies. In 1896, Paul...
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    developments that led to infinitesimal calculus, including his technique of adequality. In particular, he is recognized for his discovery of an original method...
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    Fermat was one of the first mathematicians to propose a general technique, adequality, for finding the maxima and minima of functions. As defined in set theory...
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    Leibniz's law of continuity. The standard part function implements Fermat's adequality. The notion of infinitely small quantities was discussed by the Eleatic...
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  • term was rendered as adaequalitas in Latin, and became the technique of adequality developed by Pierre de Fermat to find maxima for functions and tangent...
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    of adequality to calculate tangents and other problems in analysis and used this to calculate tangents to the parabola. The technique of adequality is...
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  • of mathematics, list of publications in mathematics. 1729 (anecdote) Adequality Archimedes Palimpsest Archimedes' use of infinitesimals Arithmetization...
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  • Maclaurin series, Taylor series Fourier series Euler–Maclaurin formula Adequality Infinitesimal Archimedes' use of infinitesimals Gottfried Leibniz Isaac...
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  • such, it is a mathematical implementation of the historical concept of adequality introduced by Pierre de Fermat, as well as Leibniz's Transcendental law...
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  • claiming that he borrowed from Diophantus, introduced the concept of adequality, which represented equality up to an infinitesimal error term. The combination...
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