Re: [HM] history of the continuum

Moshe' Machover (moshe.machover@kcl.ac.uk)
Fri, 5 Feb 1999 11:18:14 GMT

At 7:53 pm -0500 4/2/99, Alejandro Martin Maldonado wrote:
>A friend of mine is doing his thesis about the history of the continuum
>and its models (from ancient times until the categorial models). Could
>you suggest me some texts (available books or articles) he could use?

1. Philip Ehrlich (ed) *Real Numbers, Generalizations of the Reals, and
Theories of Continua*. Kluwer 1994. (And references cited therein).

2. John L Bell, `Infinitesimals and the Continuum', *The Mathematical
Inteliigencer* 17, 1995, pp. 55-7.

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