See the wonderful book by Judith Grabiner, The Origins of Cauchy's Rigorous Calculus (1981), page 140 : "Actually, his [Cauchy's] proof implicitly assumed the function to be uniformly continuous, though he did not distinguish between continuity and uniform continuity, just as he had not distinguished between convergence and uniform convergence."
András Bátkai
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