Fiction, possibility and impossibility: three kinds of mathematical fictions in Leibniz's work

DOI10.1007/S00407-021-00277-0MaRDI QIDQ2052226zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Oscar M. Esquisabel, Federico Raffo Quintana

Publication date 25 November 2021

Published in Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-021-00277-0

zbMATH Keywords

possibilityimpossibilityfiction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30)

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• L'expérience de pensée au péril de la fiction : Le cas de la correspondance entre Leibniz et Papin

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