Irrational numbers in English language textbooks, 1890--1915: Constructions and postulates for the completeness of the real numbers

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(92)90074-LzbMath0755.01023MaRDI QIDQ1194114

R. P. Burn

Publication date: 27 September 1992

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

completeness; irrational numbers; Dedekind cuts; H. B. Fine

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

01A60: History of mathematics in the 20th century

01A55: History of mathematics in the 19th century

26-03: History of real functions

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