Internalism, externalism, and beyond: 19th-century British algebra

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(84)90027-2zbMATH Open0554.01018OpenAlexW1969534422MaRDI QIDQ759735FDOQ759735

Helena M. Pycior

Publication date: 1984

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(84)90027-2

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zbMATH Keywords

Boolean algebranominalismGeorge BerkeleyDugald Stewartformal operationsimaginary numbersmeaning of symbolsontology of mathematical objectssound reasoningsymbolical algebra

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55) History of mathematical logic and foundations (03-03)

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• George Peacock and the British origins of symbolical algebra
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• Wittgenstein and Mannheim on the sociology of mathematics
• The instrumentalist and formalist elements of Berkeley's philosophy of mathematics

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