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BL
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| Record Number
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677236
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b499425
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| Uniform Title
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Principes du calcul infinitésimal.English
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| Main Entry
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Guénon, René.
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| Title & Author
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The metaphysical principles of the infinitesimal calculus /\ Rene Guenon ; translated by Henry D. Fohr ; edited by Samuel D. Fohr.
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| Edition Statement
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1st English ed.
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| Publication Statement
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Hillsdale, NY :: Sophia Perennis,, 2003.
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| Series Statement
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Collected works of Rene Guenon
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| Page. NO
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132 p. ;; 23 cm.
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| ISBN
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090058808X (cloth : alk. paper)
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: 0900588128 (alk. paper)
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| Notes
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Includes index.
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| Contents
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Infinite & indefinite -- The contradiction of 'infinite number' -- The innumerable multitude -- The measurement of the continuous -- Questions raised by the intinitesimal method -- The 'well-founded fictions' -- 'Degrees of infinity' -- 'Infinite division' or indefinite divisibility -- Indefinitely increasing & indefinitely decreasing -- Infinite & continuous -- The 'law of continuity' -- The notion of the limit -- Continuity & passage to the limit -- The 'vanishing quantities' -- Zero is not a number -- The notation of negative numbers -- Representation of the equilibrium of forces -- Variable & fixed quantities -- Successive differentiations -- Various orders of indefinitude -- The indefinite is analytically inexhaustible -- The synthetic character of integration -- The arguments of Zeno of Elea -- The true conception of 'passage to the limit'.
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Calculus.
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| Dewey Classification
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515
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| LC Classification
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QA303.G9313 2001
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