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Frege's Mathematical Setting

Wilson, Mark (2007) Frege's Mathematical Setting. [Preprint]

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    Abstract

    This survey article describes Frege's celebrated foundational work against the context of other late nineteenth century approaches to introducing mathematically novel "extension elements" within both algebra and geometry.

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    Item Type: Preprint
    Keywords: Frege, Dedekind, Hilbert, von Staudt, foundations of arithmetic, ideal numbers, extension elements, geometry
    Subjects: Specific Sciences > Mathematics
    General Issues > History of Science Case Studies
    Depositing User: mark wilson
    Date Deposited: 05 Jun 2007
    Last Modified: 07 Oct 2010 11:15
    Item ID: 3374
    URI: http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/3374

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