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In this paper I discuss the development of mathematical analysis during the second and third decades of the nineteenth century; and in particular I assert that the well-known correspondence of new ideas to be found in the writings of Bolzano and Cauchy is not a coincidence, but that Cauchy had read one particular paper of Bolzano and drew on its results without acknowledgement. The reasons for this conjecture involve not only the texts in question but also the state of development of mathematical analysis itself, Cauchy both as personality and as mathematician, and the rivalries which were prevalent in Paris at that time.
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Communicated by J. E. Hofmann
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Grattan-Guinness, I. Bolzano, Cauchy and the “new analysis” of the early nineteenth century. Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 6, 372–400 (1970). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00329818
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00329818