Point-free continuum

DOI10.1093/OSO/9780198809647.003.0017MaRDI QIDQ5149708zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Giangiacomo Gerla

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/9780198809647.003.0017

zbMATH Keywords

abstraction processAristotlecontinuadefinition of pointfoundation of geometrypoint-free geometryWhitehead

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of mathematical logic and foundations (03-03) Foundations of classical theories (including reverse mathematics) (03B30) History of geometry (51-03) Non-Desarguesian affine and projective planes (51A35) Axiomatic and generalized convexity (52A01)

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