Numbers as moments of multisets: a new-old formulation of arithmetic

DOI10.1007/s00283-010-9176-1zbMath1271.00016OpenAlexW2058694821MaRDI QIDQ536601

Ivor Grattan-Guinness

Publication date: 19 May 2011

Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-010-9176-1

zbMATH Keywords

arithmeticnatural numbersfoundations of mathematicsphilosophy of mathematicsmultisets

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of mathematical logic and foundations (03-03) Mathematics in general (00A05) General histories, source books (01A05) Set theory (03E99)

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