infinitesimal analysis

noun

calculus

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nouninfinitesimal analysis (uncountable)
  1. archaicuncountablecalculuscalculus

    Of the new or infinitesimal analysis, we are to consider Sir Isaac Newton as the first inventor, Leibnitz, a German philosopher, as the second; ...

    1816, John Playfair, Dissertation on the Progress of Mathematical and Physical Science since the Revival of Letters in Europe
  2. uncountablemathematical analysisa systematic employment of infinitesimals that reduces calculus to algebra; nonstandard analysis.
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