A Formalist Philosophy of Mathematics Part I: Arithmetic
โ Scribed by Michael Gabbay
- Publisher
- Springer Netherlands
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 288 KB
- Volume
- 96
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0039-3215
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