infinitesimals
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Any acceptance of infinitesimals necessarily meant that his own theory of number was incomplete.
A text using infinitesimals.
Cauchy in 1821 defined continuity in terms of infinitesimals (see Cours d'Analyse, page 34).
Euclid used the method of exhaustion rather than infinitesimals.
For example, it is not enough to construct an ordered field with infinitesimals.
From this point of view, calculus is a collection of techniques for manipulating infinitesimals.