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A tale of mathematical myth-making: E. T. Bell and the ‘arithmetization of algebra’
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Throughout E. T. Bell’s writings on mathematics, both those aimed at other mathematicians and those for a popular audience, we find him endeavouring to promote abstract algebra generally, and the postulational method in particular. Bell evidently felt that the adoption of the latter approach to algebra (a process that he termed the ‘arithmetization of algebra’) would lend the subject something akin to the level of rigour that analysis had achieved in the nineteenth century. However, despite p...
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1080/17498430.2015.1048640
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- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis Publisher's website
- Journal:
- BSHM Bulletin: Journal of the British Society for the History of Mathematics Journal website
- Volume:
- 31
- Issue:
- 1
- Pages:
- 69-80
- Publication date:
- 2015-01-01
- DOI:
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1749-8341
- ISSN:
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1749-8430
- Source identifiers:
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519340
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- Language:
- English
- Pubs id:
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pubs:519340
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- pubs:519340
- Deposit date:
- 2015-04-29
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- British Society for the History of Mathematics
- Copyright date:
- 2015
- Notes:
- Copyright © 2015 British Society for the History of Mathematics. This is the accepted manuscript version of the article. The final version is available online from Taylor and Francis at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17498430.2015.1048640
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