Katz and Sherry’s [Pt.4] “Leibniz’s Infinitesimals: Their Fictionality, Their Modern Implementations, And Their Foes From Berkeley To Russell And Beyond,” 4 ‘Cum Prodiisset’, summary

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Mikhail G. Katz  and David Sherry

“Leibniz’s Infinitesimals: Their Fictionality, Their Modern Implementations, And Their Foes From Berkeley To Russell And Beyond”

4. Cum Prodiisset

Brief Summary:

In the following subsections, the authors will focus on Leibniz’ Cum Prodiisset, because it is of crucial importance for understanding Leibniz’ fundamental stance.

Summary

 

Around 1701, Leibniz published, Cum Prodiisset, which is “of crucial importance in understanding Leibniz’s foundational stance”. [KS 577] The authors will focus on it in the following subsections.

Bibliography:

Katz, M.; Sherry, D. Leibniz's Infinitesimals: Their Fictionality, Their Modern Implementations, And Their Foes From Berkeley To Russell And Beyond. Erkenntnis 78 (2013), no. 3, 571-625. See http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10670-012-9370-y, http://www.ams.org/mathscinet-getitem?mr=3053644, and http://arxiv.org/abs/1205.0174

The above bibliography material taken from the following source, a page by Mikhail Katz, which links to many other recent publications on infinitesimals.

http://u.cs.biu.ac.il/~katzmik/infinitesimals.html