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From discrete to continuous: the broadening of number concepts in early modern England
In the early modern period, a crucial transformation occurred in the classical conception of number and magnitude. Traditionally, numbers were merely collections of discrete units that measured some multiple. Magnitude, on the other hand, was usually described as being continuous, or being divisible...
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Springer
2002
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| Acceso en línea: | https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-0077-1 http://cds.cern.ch/record/2146536 |