Abstraction in mathematics

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Volumn 358, Issue 1435, 2003, Pages 1225-1230

  Ferrari, Pier Luigi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EASTERN PIEDMONT   (Italy)

Author keywords

Decontextualization; Generalization; Reification

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 0042347765     PISSN: 09628436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rstb.2003.1316     Document Type: Review

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