Tiziana Bascelli, E. Bottazzi, Frederik S. Herzberg, V. Kanovei, Karin U. Katz, M. Katz, Tahl Nowik, David Sherry, S. Shnider
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Abstract
Fermat, Leibniz, Euler, and Cauchy all used one or another form of approximate equality, or the idea of discarding "negligible" terms, so as to obtain a correct analytic answer. Their inferential moves find suitable proxies in the context of modern theories of infinitesimals, and specifically the concept of shadow. We give an application to decreasing rearrangements of real functions.
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