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Re: [HM] Cauchy
Posted:
Nov 22, 2006 12:39 PM
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The expression "solution de continuité", like the
corresponding one in Portuguese (and I guess in
other Latin languages), means simply
"discontinuity", or "interruption", or "break".
Joao Filipe Queiro
Universidade de Coimbra
Portugal
At 15:52 14/11/2006, Gunnar Berg wrote:
>Dear all.
>In perusing Cauchys "Cours d'analyse" (1821) I have come across the
>following (p.35):
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> "Enfin, lorsqu'un fonction f(x) cesse d'etre continue dans le voisinage
> d'une valeur particuliere de la variable x, on dit qu'elle devient
> alors discontinue, et qu'il y a pour cette valeur particuliere
> solution de continuite."
>
>What puzzles me is the last phrase - "solution de continuite" -
>I simply cannot make any sense of it. What can Augustin-Louis mean?
>I look forward to hear from those whose knowledge of Cauchy and his
>times are more profound than mine.
>
> From Uppsala, deep in the gloom of November.
>
> Gunnar Berg
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