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In the preceding chapters we have seen Newton, Gregory, Euler, and others freely using infinite series. This terminology, as applied to the object of our study, was introduced in the last third of the seventeenth century.
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González-Velasco, E.A. (2011). Infinite Series. In: Journey through Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-92154-9_4
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