From completeness to Archimedean completeness. An essay in the foundations of Euclidean geometry

DOI10.1023/A:1004971123925zbMATH Open0952.51001OpenAlexW163290807MaRDI QIDQ1293012FDOQ1293012

Philip Ehrlich

Publication date: 14 December 1999

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1004971123925

zbMATH Keywords

Euclidean geometryArchimedean completeness

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Foundations of classical theories (including reverse mathematics) (03B30) History of geometry (51-03) Euclidean geometries (general) and generalizations (51M05) Fields related with sums of squares (formally real fields, Pythagorean fields, etc.) (12D15) Ordered fields (12J15)

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• CARNAP ON EXTREMAL AXIOMS, “COMPLETENESS OF THE MODELS,” AND CATEGORICITY
• The rise of non-Archimedean mathematics and the roots of a misconception. I: The emergence of non-Archimedean systems of magnitudes
• Completeness and Categoricity. Part I: Nineteenth-century Axiomatics to Twentieth-century Metalogic
• Bridging the gap between analytic and synthetic geometry: Hilbert's axiomatic approach

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