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Historical Developments in Singular Perturbations

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Leonhard Euler (1707–1783) , among others in the eighteenth century, was adept at manipulating divergent series, though usually without careful justification (cf. Tucciarone [487], Barbeau and Leah [26], and Varadarajan [493]). Note, however, Hardy’s conclusion

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O’Malley, R.E. (2014). Asymptotic Approximations. In: Historical Developments in Singular Perturbations. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11924-3_2

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