Abstraction and infinity /

Mancosu offers an original investigation of key notions in mathematics: abstraction and infinity, and their interaction. He gives a historical analysis of the theorizing of definitions by abstraction, and explores a novel approach to measuring the size of infinite sets, showing how this leads to dee...

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Online Access:Electronic book from Oxford Scholarship Online
Main Author: Mancosu, Paolo (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published:Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Edition:First edition.
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