Chapter ID: CBB000009317

Conceptual revolutions and the history of mathematics: Two studies in the growth of knowledge (1984)

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Description “My intention here is to argue that revolutions can and do occur in the history of mathematics, and that the Greek's discovery of incommensurable magnitudes and Georg Cantor's creation of transfinite set theory are especially appropriate examples ...”


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Authors & Contributors
Belna, Jean-Pierre
Moore, Gregory H.
Grattan-Guinness, Ivor
Ferreirós, José
Séguin, Philippe
Murata, Tamotsu
Concepts
Set theory
Mathematics
Infinity
Number theory; number concept
Mathematical analysis
Science
Time Periods
19th century
Medieval
20th century, early
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