4 ideas
18086 | Weierstrass eliminated talk of infinitesimals [Weierstrass, by Kitcher] |
18092 | Weierstrass made limits central, but the existence of limits still needed to be proved [Weierstrass, by Bostock] |
13007 | Archimedes defined a straight line as the shortest distance between two points [Archimedes, by Leibniz] |
21131 | Democracy is competition for support of the people, guided by self-interest on all sides [Posner] |