Mathematical and physical continuity

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Authors Mark Colyvan, Kenny Easwaran

Publication date 27 May 2009

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) Foundations: limits and generalizations, elementary topology of the line (26A03) Continuity and related questions (modulus of continuity, semicontinuity, discontinuities, etc.) for real functions in one variable (26A15)

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