• 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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    geometry, which is the precursor to modern calculus. Fermat's method of adequality allowed him to determine the maxima and minima of functions and the tangents...
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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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  • 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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    Diophantus' term παρισὀτης as adaequalitat, which became Fermat's technique of adequality, a pioneering method of infinitesimal calculus. Bachet was the earliest...
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    Look up up to in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Abuse of notation Adequality Essentially unique List of mathematical jargon Modulo (jargon) Quotient...
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  • infinitesimals, but it is also used when discussing differentials, and adequality. The full text of The Analyst can be read on Wikisource, as well as on...
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    in a denser medium. Fermat's derivation also utilized his invention of adequality, a mathematical procedure equivalent to differential calculus, for finding...
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    principles in physics). It was the more notable because it used the method of adequality, which may be understood in retrospect as finding the point where the...
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  • )(x_{k+1}-x_{k})=M(b-a)+\epsilon (b-a)} from which the result follows. Adequality Criticism of nonstandard analysis Archimedes' use of infinitesimals Elementary...
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  • linearum curvarum distributed in 1636, Fermat introduced the concept of adequality, which represented equality up to an infinitesimal error term. This method...
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  • tangent line. This was discovered about the same time as Fermat's method of adequality. While Fermat's method had more in common with the infinitesimal techniques...
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