Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1768
Abstract
D'Alembert states (for the first time) the ratio test for convergence of series, and investigates how series converge or diverge "in their first terms" but perhaps not "in their final terms."
Publication Information
§I of Réflexions sur les Suites & sur les Racines imaginaires, in Opuscules Mathématiques, tome V, Primiere Partie, XXXVme Mémoire, Paris, 1768, pp. 171-183.
Recommended Citation
d'Alembert, Jean le Rond, "Réflexions sur les suites divergentes ou convergentes, §I" (1768). 2017, September 30 ORESME Reading Group Meeting. 3.
https://www.exhibit.xavier.edu/oresme_2017Sept/3
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