Fiction, possibility and impossibility: three kinds of mathematical fictions in Leibniz's work
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Publication:2052226
DOI10.1007/S00407-021-00277-0zbMATH Open1484.01005OpenAlexW3158035634MaRDI QIDQ2052226FDOQ2052226
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
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