Johann Bernoulli’s Rules for Differentials—What Does “Equal” Mean?

Detlef D. Spalt

Chapter Chapter 6 in A Brief History of Analysis, 2022, pp 59-67 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Earlier we have seen how Leibniz developed the geometrical notion “differential” (pp. 32f.). The Leibnizian differential dy is a line segment, where its length is determined as the ratio to a given (finite) line segment with the help of a limiting process (in the figure on p. 33).

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-00650-0_6

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