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Vol. 24 No. 2 (2021): July

Anamnesis of the theory of the indivisibles of Cavalieri

DOI:
https://doi.org/10.12802/relime.21.2422
Published
July 31, 2021

Abstract

In their specific social and cultural circumstance, the Cavalerian indivisibles constitute an understandable theory that seeks the symbols of the infinite-continuous at the dawn of European Modernity. Many of the key notions of this theory survive in mathematics today.

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