Ben's consolidation of knowledge structures about infinite sets

Journal of Mathematical Behavior

Volumn 23, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 271-300

  Dreyfus, Tommy ^a   Tsamir, Pessia ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Abstraction; Comparison of infinite sets; Consolidation; Reflection; Representation

Indexed keywords

EID: 4544291864     PISSN: 07323123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmathb.2004.06.002     Document Type: Article

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