The metaphysical principles of the infinitesimal calculus
By: Rene Guenon ; translators Michael Allen, Henry D. Fohr ; editor Samuel D. Fohr.
Edition: 1st English ed.
Series: Collected works of Rene Guenon
Publisher: Sophia Perennis
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Hillsdale, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 132
Subjects: Calculus.
Work titles: Principes du calcul infinitésimal.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Infinite & indefinite; title: The contradiction of 'infinite number'; title: The innumerable multitude; title: The measurement of the continuous; title: Questions raised by the intinitesimal method; title: The 'well-founded fictions'; title: 'Degrees of infinity'; title: 'Infinite division' or indefinite divisibility; title: Indefinitely increasing & indefinitely decreasing; title: Infinite & continuous; title: The 'law of continuity'; title: The notion of the limit; title: Continuity & passage to the limit; title: The 'vanishing quantities'; title: Zero is not a number; title: The notation of negative numbers; title: Representation of the equilibrium of forces; title: Variable & fixed quantities; title: Successive differentiations; title: Various orders of indefinitude; title: The indefinite is analytically inexhaustible; title: The synthetic character of integration; title: The arguments of Zeno of Elea; title: The true conception of 'passage to the limit'.