Measuring the Size of Infinite Collections of Natural Numbers: Was Cantor'S Theory of Infinite Number Inevitable?

Review of Symbolic Logic

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 612-646

  Mancosu, Paolo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84989179918     PISSN: 17550203     EISSN: 17550211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1755020309990128     Document Type: Review

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