Re: Attempt epsilon-delta

From: Chris Wagner (clwagner_at_vulcan.wagner.nul)
Date: 10/01/04 

Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 12:36:06 +0000 (UTC)

In article <Ken.Pledger-4548F7.13453330092004@bats.mcs.vuw.ac.nz>,
        Ken Pledger <Ken.Pledger@mcs.vuw.ac.nz> writes:
> In article <cjeohn$3cvr$1@murrow.it.wsu.edu>,
> clwagner@vulcan.wagner.nul (Chris Wagner) wrote:
>
>> ....
>> My questions are:
>> Is the epsilon-delta method due to Cauchy?
>> ....
>
>
> The essential idea of it is, but not the notation. Cauchy was the
> first to handle limits by showing that something is less than something
> chosen as small as you like, if something else is small (or large)
> enough. He stated it a lot better than I just did, but in words. It
> was Weierstrass who translated that into the much more symbolic form
> which we normally use now.
>
> Ken Pledger.

Thank-you.

How about "Cauchy-Weierstrass epsilon-delta" method.