Connections between history and philosophy of mathematics. Informed frameworks, spontaneous philosophy, and philosophical challenges to mathematics. (Introduction to 10th Novembertagung). (Q2767843)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1698691
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 1698691 |
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5 May 2002
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G. W. Hegel
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foundations of the calculus
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Connections between history and philosophy of mathematics. Informed frameworks, spontaneous philosophy, and philosophical challenges to mathematics. (Introduction to 10th Novembertagung). (English)
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After some general remarks on certain philosophical stances about mathematics, the author explores a little-known episode in the 1870s, when a dispute was aired in \textit{Nature} and with the Royal Society of Edinburgh about the (lack of) merits of the views on the fluxional calculus that had been put forward by Hegel. The account is rather clouded by a failure to state the precise details of Hegel's views; and by the author's apparent belief (p. 156), maybe shared with Hegel, that Lagrange's attempt to algebraise the calculus had been successful.NEWLINENEWLINEFor the entire collection see [Zbl 0976.00021].
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