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‘Nobody could possibly misunderstand what a group is’: a study in early twentieth-century group axiomatics
- Abstract:
- In the early years of the twentieth century, the so-called ‘postulate analysis’—the study of systems of axioms for mathematical objects for their own sake—was regarded by some as a vital part of the efforts to understand those objects. I consider the place of postulate analysis within early twentieth-century mathematics by focusing on the example of a group: I outline the axiomatic studies to which groups were subjected at this time and consider the changing attitudes towards such investigations.
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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- 10.1007/s00407-017-0193-8
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- Publisher:
- Springer Berlin Heidelberg
- Journal:
- Archive for History of Exact Sciences More from this journal
- Volume:
- 71
- Issue:
- 5
- Pages:
- 409–481
- Publication date:
- 2017-07-20
- Acceptance date:
- 2017-05-30
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1432-0657
- ISSN:
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0003-9519
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English
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697646
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2017-05-30
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- Hollings, C
- Copyright date:
- 2017
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- © The Author 2017. This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made.
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