MEASURING THE SIZE OF INFINITE COLLECTIONS OF NATURAL NUMBERS: WAS CANTOR’S THEORY OF INFINITE NUMBER INEVITABLE?
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Publication:5850982
DOI10.1017/S1755020309990128zbMath1204.03003WikidataQ114826162 ScholiaQ114826162MaRDI QIDQ5850982
Publication date: 21 January 2010
Published in: The Review of Symbolic Logic (Search for Journal in Brave)
Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) History of mathematical logic and foundations (03-03) Ordinal and cardinal numbers (03E10)
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