‘Nobody could possibly misunderstand what a group is’: a study in early twentieth-century group axiomatics
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DOI: 10.1007/s00407-017-0193-8
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… read more here.
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