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What Is a Number?

A. Gardiner
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A. Gardiner: University of Birmingham, Department of Mathematics

Chapter Chapter IV.1 in Infinite Processes, 1982, pp 247-253 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In Chapter II.5 we stressed the distinction between the intuitive idea that the counting process is endless, and the actual fact that we have English names for only finitely many of these counting numbers.

Date: 1982
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4612-5654-0_21

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