Friday, 21 October 2011

Il teorema di Bolzano (1817) o di Weierstrass (1885)?

Theorem. If a function Fx is continuous from x=a to x=b inclusive, then among all the values which it takes, if we imagine that x successively takes all the values from a to b inclusive, there is always a greatest in the sense that no other is greater than it, and there is also a smallest in the sense that no other is smaller than it.

Dai manoscritti di Bernard Bolzano (Functionenlehre e Größenlehre 1817)

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