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unexpectedtrap | 6 months ago

Euclid’s Elements “rigorous proof” is not the same thing as the modern rigorous proof at all.

>But the infinitesimal methods used before epsilon-delta have been redeemed by the work on nonstandard analysis.

This doesn’t mean that these infinitesimal methods were used in a rigorous way.

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