Mathematics and the Method of Abstraction

Kit Fine ()
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Kit Fine: New York University

A chapter in Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Mathematical Practice, 2024, pp 159-166 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract I provide a brief history and some philosophical reflections on the development of the method of abstraction in mathematics during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.

Keywords: Abstraction; Frege; von Neumann; Cantor; Locke; Berkeley; Russell; Number (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-40846-5_91

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