(1) THE theory of maxima and minima contains pitfalls into which have fallen such well-known mathematicians as Lagrange, Bertrand, Serret, and Todhunter. A peculiar interest, therefore, is attached to ...
https://doi.org/10.4169/college.math.j.46.1.15 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.4169/college.math.j.46.1.15 Copy URL Almost fifty years before Leibniz and Newton ...