The Development of Analysis: A Case Study

In The nature of mathematical knowledge. Oxford: Oxford University Press (1983)
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Concludes with a more sustained look at a single part of the history of mathematics, the development of analysis from the seventeenth century to the work of Dedekind, Cantor and Frege. The discussion is linked to the general account of Chapters 7–9.

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