How to define a number? A general epistemological account of Simon Stevin's art of defining

DOI10.1007/S11245-009-9068-1zbMATH Open1195.00019OpenAlexW2079747083MaRDI QIDQ989750FDOQ989750

Authors: Jurgen Naets 

Publication date: 23 August 2010

Published in: Topoi (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11245-009-9068-1

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zbMATH Keywords

numberexistential closureethos of geometrymathematical knowing

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40)

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