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===Taylor's theorem=== He was the first to prove [[Taylor's theorem]] rigorously, establishing his well-known form of the remainder.{{sfn|Chisholm|1911}} He wrote a textbook{{sfn|Cauchy|1821}} (see the illustration) for his students at the Γcole Polytechnique in which he developed the basic theorems of mathematical analysis as rigorously as possible. In this book he gave the necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a [[limit of a function|limit]] in the form that is still taught.<!-- which is epsilon delta? --> Also Cauchy's well-known test for [[absolute convergence]] stems from this book: [[Cauchy condensation test]]. In 1829 he defined for the first time a complex function of a complex variable in another textbook.{{sfn|Cauchy|1829}} In spite of these, Cauchy's own research papers often used intuitive, not rigorous, methods;{{sfn|Kline|1982|p=176}} thus one of his theorems was exposed to a "counter-example" by [[Niels Henrik Abel|Abel]], later fixed by the introduction of the notion of [[uniform continuity]].
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