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so:text | Because they feared infinite processes they missed the limit process. In approximating a circle by a polygon they were content to make the difference smaller than any given quantity, but something positive was always left over. Thus the process remained clear to the intuition; the limit process, on the other hand, would have involved the infinitely small. (en) |
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so:description | Mathematical Thought from Ancient to Modern Times (1972) (en) |
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