Naturalism in Mathematics
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: August 18, 2000
Language: eng
Number of pages: 264
ISBN-13: 9780198250753
First sentence: Set theory, as we now know it, resulted from a confluence of two distinct historical developments, one beginning from the work of Gottlob Frege from the 1870s to the early 1900s, the other beginning from the work of Georg Cantor during roughly the same period.