How Bertrand Russell discovered his paradox

DOI10.1016/0315-0860(78)90046-0zbMath0379.01010OpenAlexW2013501110MaRDI QIDQ1247411

Ivor Grattan-Guinness

Publication date: 1978

Published in: Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/0315-0860(78)90046-0

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Continuum hypothesis and Martin's axiom (03E50) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55)

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• The correspondence between George Cantor and Philip Jourdain
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