Real Numbers

Saunders Mac Lane
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Saunders Mac Lane: University of Chicago, Department of Mathematics

Chapter Chapter IV in Mathematics Form and Function, 1986, pp 93-122 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter will explore the origins and development of the system of real numbers. These numbers form the most central structure in all of Mathematics. Like other structures it arises from more primitive human activities—in this case, from the measurement and comparison of magnitudes of various kinds.

Date: 1986
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-4872-9_5

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