[FOM] irreducible continua: some references
Robert Tragesser
robert at thesavvydog.com
Thu Mar 4 07:49:59 EST 2004
Everett asked [ FOM Digest, Vol 15, Issue 3 ]
"I was wondering if anyone on the list has seen mathematical or
philosophical
work on the continuum being a fundamental unity?"
Such work by, e.g., Aristotle, Leibniz, Peirce,Whiehead, Menger,
Brouwer, Weyl,
Two recent, brief, lucid texts, with ample references, containing
historical & philosophical discussion of such continua (irreducible to
the discrete), as well as nontrivial mathematical elaboration on
different foundations:
[1] J.L.Bell, A PRIMER OF INFINITESIMAL ANALYSIS; Cambridge University
Press 1998
[2] Mark van Atten, ON BROUWER; Wadsworth 2004.
Robert Tragesser
Nyack-on-Hudson, NY
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