Measuring the size of infinite collections of natural numbers: was Cantor's theory of infinite number inevitable?
DOI10.1017/S1755020309990128zbMATH Open1204.03003WikidataQ114826162 ScholiaQ114826162MaRDI QIDQ5850982FDOQ5850982
Authors: Paolo Mancosu 
Publication date: 21 January 2010
Published in: The Review of Symbolic Logic (Search for Journal in Brave)
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