Seventeenth-Century Indivisibles Revisited

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Jullien, Vincent (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2015.
• Series: Science Networks. Historical Studies, 49
• Subjects: Mathematics.; History.; History of Mathematical Sciences.

The tremendous success of indivisibles methods in geometry in the seventeenth century, responds to a vast project: installation of infinity in mathematics. The pathways by the authors are very diverse, as are the characterizations of indivisibles, but there are significant factors of unity between t...