Infinitesimals, magnitudes, and definition in Frege

DOI10.1093/OSO/9780198712084.003.0010zbMATH Open1465.03024OpenAlexW2990870890MaRDI QIDQ5116958FDOQ5116958

Authors: Jamie Tappenden 

Publication date: 19 August 2020

Published in: Essays on Frege's Basic Laws of Arithmetic (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198712084.003.0010

Recommendations

• Grundlagen, Section 64: Frege's Discussion of Definitions by Abstraction in Historical Context
• Frege's Approach to the Foundations of Analysis (1874–1903)
• Frege's Theory of Real Numbers
• Frege's theory of real numbers: A consistent rendering
• Frege on quantities and real numbers in consideration of the theories of Cantor, Russell and others

zbMATH Keywords

Riemann integralFregeinfinitesimalmagnitudenumberobjectHermann Hankelcontextual definition\textit{Grundgesetze}Clebsch-Aronhold notation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of mathematical logic and foundations (03-03) First-order arithmetic and fragments (03F30) Foundations: limits and generalizations, elementary topology of the line (26A03)

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