On abstraction and the importance of asking the right research questions: could Jordan have proved the Jordan-Hölder theorem?
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Publication:948980
DOI10.1007/s10670-008-9108-zzbMath1221.00031MaRDI QIDQ948980
Publication date: 16 October 2008
Published in: Erkenntnis (Search for Journal in Brave)
Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10670-008-9108-z
00A30: Philosophy of mathematics
01A55: History of mathematics in the 19th century
20-03: History of group theory
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