Did Poincaré say ``Set theory is a disease?

DOI10.1007/BF03024067MaRDI QIDQ752679zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Jeremy Gray

Publication date 1991

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03024067

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70)

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