Philosophical method and galileo’s paradox of infinity

New Perspectives on Mathematical Practices: Essays in Philosophy and History of Mathematics

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 76-113

  Parker, Matthew ^a  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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