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.

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