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Nagging Questions About the Logical Underpinnings of Calculus

January 27, 2016

Newton's book of doubts about calculus's foundations, which took about 200 years to resolve.

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[Book cover] "Nagging Questions I Have About the Logical Underpinnings of Calculus (which may or may not take another 200 years to resolve) by Isaac Newton"

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