infinitesimal analysis

English

Noun

infinitesimal analysis (uncountable)

1. (archaic, calculus) calculus
   • 1816, John Playfair, Dissertation on the Progress of Mathematical and Physical Science since the Revival of Letters in Europe:

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

2. (mathematics, mathematical analysis) a systematic employment of infinitesimals that reduces calculus to algebra; nonstandard analysis.
   • 1998, John L. Bell, A Primer of Infinitesimal Analysis.:
   • 2002, E.I. Gordon, A.G. Kusraev, S.S. Kutateladze, Infinitesimal Analysis: