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‘Nobody could possibly misunderstand what a group is’: a study in early twentieth-century group axiomatics

In the early years of the twentieth century, the so-called ‘postulate analysis’—the study of systems of axioms for mathematical objects for their own sake—was regarded by some as a vital part of the efforts to understand those objects. I consider the place of postulate analysis within early twentiet...

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Autor principal: Hollings, Christopher D.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer Berlin Heidelberg 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5573778/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28912607
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00407-017-0193-8