Peirce the logician
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Peirce the logician
zbMATH Open document ID: 0487.01012
DOI: 10.1016/0315-0860(82)90123-9
author: Hilary W. Putnam
published in: Historia Mathematica
publication date: 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z
review text: This paper discusses the influence of the Boolean school (specially Boole, Schröder, Peirce, Mitchell, and Ladd-Franklin) on the development of modern logic. In particular, the discovery of the quantifier by Peirce's student O. H. Mitchell, independently of Frege, is emphasized.
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A55
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 01A60
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 03-03
zbMATH DE Number: 3765738
zbMATH Keywords: history of logic
zbMATH Keywords: history of quantification
zbMATH Keywords: Boole
zbMATH Keywords: Schroeder
zbMATH Keywords: Mitchell
zbMATH Keywords: Ladd-Franklin
Wikidata QID: Q56228043
reviewed by: N. C. A. da Costa
MaRDI profile type: Publication
full work available at URL: 0315-0860(82)90123-9
OpenAlex ID: W2053753025
cites work: Q5802117
cites work: Logic in the twenties: the nature of the quantifier
cites work: Q5797033
cites work: Q5573940
description: scientific article; zbMATH DE number 3765738