Although implicit in the development of calculus of the 17th and 18th centuries, the modern idea of the limit of a function goes back to Bolzano who, in 1817, introduced the basics of the epsilon-delta technique to define continuous functions.
Aínda que implícita no desenvolvemento do cálculo dos séculos XVII e XVIII, a notación moderna do límite dunha función remóntase a Bolzano quen, en 1817, introduciu as bases da técnica épsilon-delta.