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Infinite series were present in Greek mathematics, though the Greeks tried to deal with them as finitely as possible by working with arbitrary finite sums a 1 + a 2 +... + a n instead of infinite sums a 1 + a 2 +.... However, this is just the difference between potential and actual infinity.
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Stillwell, J. (1989). Infinite Series. In: Mathematics and Its History. Undergraduate Texts in Mathematics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0007-4_9
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