“A quantity is something or nothing: if it is something, it has not yet vanished; if it is nothing, it has literally vanished. The supposition that there is an intermediate state between these two is a chimera. D'Alembert”
Quote by Carl B. Boyer
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The History of the Calculus and Its Conceptual Development
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