Infinity and continuity

DOI10.1093/OSO/9780198809647.003.0004MaRDI QIDQ5149694zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Edith Sylla

Publication date 12 February 2021

Published in The History of Continua (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198809647.003.0004

zbMATH Keywords

infinite divisibilitycontinuityinfiniteindivisiblesGodeternity\textit{De continuo}categorematic and syncategorematicdemonstrations by reduction to absurdity (apagogic arguments)God's knowledgemediate or immediatephysical and/or mathematical

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of mathematical logic and foundations (03-03) History of real functions (26-03) History of mathematics in Late Antiquity and medieval Europe (01A35)

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