Kelly Shaye C.

Bayno
BSA - 4

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Summary
The article relates the historical backdrop of how analytics came to get a
thorough premise as far as the algebra of inequalities. The outcome is a brief
history of the 150 years from Newton/Leibniz to Cauchy that delivered the
foundations of analysis.

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Points of Agreement
Cauchys great insight was that he could view error estimates as
fundamental. Using them as definitions and developing them into proofs, he
could reach all the formal results while using nothing more transcendental than
inequalities.
Disagreement
Though Im not certain, there are certainly parallels between the
development of the limit, continuity, and derivative. And that, the accomplishment
in clarifying the concepts of calculus was clearly not all due to one mans efforts.
Realization
Calculus was a process that occurred over many years and through
numerous individuals endeavors. A thought was conceived and developed to a
genuinely precise idea, first written down in fairly vague terms, with likely an
inadequate comprehension to go with it. It was grabbed by the following
mathematician who cleared up and enhanced it until at last we had an exact
definition that could be utilized in rigorous mathematics.