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

DOI10.1007/S11245-009-9068-1MaRDI QIDQ989750zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

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

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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