Berkeley (George). The Analyst; or, A Discourse addressed to an Infidel Mathematician. Wherein it is examined whether the object, principles, and inferences of the modern Analysis are more distinctly conceived, or more evidently deduced than Religious Mysteries and Points of Faith. By the Author of The Minute Philosopher, 1st Dublin edition, printed by and for S. Fuller and J. Leathly, 1734, 86, [2], the final leaf being the bookseller's advertisement, several algebraic illustrations to text, single woodcut head-piece to first leaf of main text, some light soiling to title and verso of final leaf, disbound without covers, small waterstain to head of 5 leaves towards end (K1-4 & L1), 8vo (Qty: 1) ESTC T97136. An important text in the history of mathematics, Berkeley's Analyst is a critique of the foundations of differential calculus. 'Whether our concern be with Newtonian "fluxions" or with Leibnizian "infinitessimals".' Both... suffer from the fatal defect of demanding that certain 'increments' vanish in a result whose demonstration requires these increments to have a finite value... This difficulty formed the starting point of many discussions of the foundations of mathematics that continued in England until the 19th century' (Dictionary of Scientific Biography).
Berkeley (George). The Analyst; or, A Discourse addressed to an Infidel Mathematician. Wherein it is examined whether the object, principles, and inferences of the modern Analysis are more distinctly conceived, or more evidently deduced than Religious Mysteries and Points of Faith. By the Author of The Minute Philosopher, 1st Dublin edition, printed by and for S. Fuller and J. Leathly, 1734, 86, [2], the final leaf being the bookseller's advertisement, several algebraic illustrations to text, single woodcut head-piece to first leaf of main text, some light soiling to title and verso of final leaf, disbound without covers, small waterstain to head of 5 leaves towards end (K1-4 & L1), 8vo (Qty: 1) ESTC T97136. An important text in the history of mathematics, Berkeley's Analyst is a critique of the foundations of differential calculus. 'Whether our concern be with Newtonian "fluxions" or with Leibnizian "infinitessimals".' Both... suffer from the fatal defect of demanding that certain 'increments' vanish in a result whose demonstration requires these increments to have a finite value... This difficulty formed the starting point of many discussions of the foundations of mathematics that continued in England until the 19th century' (Dictionary of Scientific Biography).
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