Varieties of Continua C

by Stewart Shapiro and Geoffrey Hellman

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Varieties of Continua explores the development of the idea of the continuous. Hellman and Shapiro begin with two historical episodes. The first is the remarkably rapid transition in the course of the nineteenth century from the ancient Aristotelian view, that a true continuum cannot be composed of points, to the now standard, point-based frameworks for analysis and geometry found in modern mainstream mathematics (stemming from the work of Bolzano,...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:019871274X

ISBN13:9780198712749

Release Date:April 2018

Publisher:Academic

Length:220 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Related Subjects

Math Mathematics Philosophy Science & Math

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