"Much has been written on the history of calculus... However, historians tend to harp on the question of logical justification and to spend a disproportionate amount of time on the way it was handled in the nineteenth century. This not only obscures the boldness and vigor of early calculus, but it is overly dogmatic about the way in which calculus should be justified. ...the sheer diversity of foundations for calculus suggests that we have not yet got to the bottom of it."

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, Mathematics and its History (1989)

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