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The metaphysical principles of the infinitesimal calculus /

090058808X (cloth : alk. paper)

0900588128 (alk. paper)

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The metaphysical principles of the infinitesimal calculus /

[Book]

Rene Guenon ; translated by Henry D. Fohr ; edited by Samuel D. Fohr.

1st English ed.

Hillsdale, NY :

Sophia Perennis,

2003.

132 p. ;

23 cm.

Collected works of Rene Guenon

Includes index.

Infinite & indefinite -- The contradiction of 'infinite number' -- The innumerable multitude -- The measurement of the continuous -- Questions raised by the intinitesimal method -- The 'well-founded fictions' -- 'Degrees of infinity' -- 'Infinite division' or indefinite divisibility -- Indefinitely increasing & indefinitely decreasing -- Infinite & continuous -- The 'law of continuity' -- The notion of the limit -- Continuity & passage to the limit -- The 'vanishing quantities' -- Zero is not a number -- The notation of negative numbers -- Representation of the equilibrium of forces -- Variable & fixed quantities -- Successive differentiations -- Various orders of indefinitude -- The indefinite is analytically inexhaustible -- The synthetic character of integration -- The arguments of Zeno of Elea -- The true conception of 'passage to the limit'.

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Principes du calcul infinitésimal.

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Calculus.

Guénon, René.

20041005150732.0

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