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Title
Abstraction and infinity / Paolo Mancosu.
Author
Mancosu, Paolo, author.
Edition
First edition.
ISBN
9780191809095 (electronic book)
Published
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource
Call Number
QA9
Dewey Decimal Classification
510.1
Summary
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 deep mathematical and philosophical problems.
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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 deep mathematical and philosophical problems.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Source of Description
Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on December 13, 2016).
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Print version: 9780198746829
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