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Seminar on the History of Mathematics
October 3, 2013 18:00, St. Peterburg


The history of Rolle's theorem

G. I. Sinkevich



Abstract: Rolle's theorem was proved by Weierstrass, Bolzano–Cauchy's theorem was formulated by Rolle 127 years before Bolzano and Cauchy. Ones could make a derivative equation 100 years before analysis appears. How did this ideas develop? What did Michel Rolle, the son of shoemaker and academician, make?


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