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Cauchy and the continuum

The significance of non-standard analysis for the history and philosophy of mathematics

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Lakatos, I. Cauchy and the continuum. The Mathematical Intelligencer 1, 151–161 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03023263

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