"epsilontic" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1966, J. C. Oxtoby, B. J. Pettis, G. B. Price, John Von Neumann, 1903-1957, American Mathematical Soc., page 88",
          "text": "The question is of a technical, gymnastic kind, and von Neumann's positive answer [4] uses the set-theoretic and epsilontic trickery appropriate to this domain.",
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          "ref": "1969, J. M. Ziman, Elements of Advanced Quantum Theory, Cambridge University Press, page 238",
          "text": "If a parameter such as x in (7.71) is continuous, there are other operations of the group 'as close as one likes' to any given operation; in 'epsilontic' language, we must be able to write T(x + ε) → T(x) as ε → 0. (7.76)",
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          "ref": "1996, Ronald Calinger, Vita Mathematica: Historical Research and Integration with Teaching, Cambridge University Press, page 168",
          "text": "Weierstrass precisely defines a function in the modern sense as a correspondence between two variable quantities—a definition he attributes to Fourier, Cauchy, and Dirichlet—and develops the epsilontic method.",
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          "ref": "2009, Detlef Laugwitz, Bernhard Riemann 1826–1866: Turning Points in the Conception of Mathematics, Springer Science & Business Media, page 44",
          "text": "Riemann definitely accepts the epsilontic justification of limit analysis, as shown by his well-known introduction of the concept of the integral in his habilitation paper of 1853 (W. 239), and, more fully, by this paper as a whole.",
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        "Pertaining to mathematical analysis using explicit error bound estimation and the epsilon-delta definition of a limit, especially as opposed to using infinitesimals."
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        "(mathematics) Pertaining to mathematical analysis using explicit error bound estimation and the epsilon-delta definition of a limit, especially as opposed to using infinitesimals."
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