Re: Explaining the foundations of math

From: Herman Rubin (hrubin_at_odds.stat.purdue.edu)
Date: 09/02/04 

Date: 2 Sep 2004 15:26:11 -0500

In article <HJ-dnbHONKpMc63cRVn-rA@comcast.com>,
Jon Miller <jonmillere1@comcast.net> wrote:
>"The World Wide Wade" <waderameyxiii@comcast.remove13.net> wrote in message
>news:waderameyxiii-8553A7.10570028082004@news.supernews.com...
>> In article <cgofbn$tos@odak26.prod.google.com>,
>> "Van Jacques" <calccurve-test23@yahoo.com> wrote:

>> > For example, Weierstrass's main lasting contribution to math
>> > was to define the limit of f(x) at x_o as follows:

>> Hardly.

>Hey, don't confuse me with facts, my mind is made up.

The key step in "epsilontics" was taken by Bolzano in
1817, and amplified by Cauchy in 1820. As for limit,
Archimedes and Euclid, and other Greeks, had the concept
even if they could not produce a formal definition, not
having the terminology of many variables, and not even
having one variable before Diophantus. 

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