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infinitesimal analysis en · NOUN
Meanings
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(archaic, uncountable) calculus
Of the new or infinitesimal analysis, we are to consider Sir Isaac Newton as the first inventor, Leibnitz, a German philosopher, as the second; ...
1816, John Playfair, Dissertation on the Progress of Mathematical and Physical Science since the Revival of Letters in Europe:
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(uncountable) a systematic employment of infinitesimals that reduces calculus to algebra; nonstandard analysis.