Did Poincaré say ``Set theory is a disease?

DOI10.1007/BF03024067zbMath0716.01027OpenAlexW2032335036WikidataQ59666362 ScholiaQ59666362MaRDI QIDQ752679

Jeremy J. Gray

Publication date: 1991

Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf03024067

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) History of mathematics in the 19th century (01A55)

Related Items (5)

Poincaré replies to Hilbert: on the future of mathematics ca. 1908 ⋮ Book review of Jeremy Gray, Henri Poincaré: a scientific biography ⋮ Poincaré in Göttingen ⋮ Metaphorical reactions in 1932: from the mathematical ‘crisis of intuition’ to ‘reconstruction in the exact sciences’ ⋮ Hilbert on the infinite: The role of set theory in the evolution of Hilbert's thought

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• On rewriting the history of the foundations of mathematics at the turn of the century
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