Comparability of infinities and infinite multitude in Galileo and Leibniz

DOI10.1007/978-94-017-9664-4_8MaRDI QIDQ5261594zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Samuel Levey

Publication date 6 July 2015

Published in G.W. Leibniz, Interrelations between Mathematics and Philosophy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9664-4_8

zbMATH Keywords

bijection principleEuclid's axiomGalileo's paradoxindivisiblesinfinite multitudeinfinite number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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