Screen LibraryVarieties of continua : from regions to points and back /
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Oxford University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Oxford : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First edition. |
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| Carrier Form: | ix, 208 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-204) and index. |
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9780198712749 (hardback : alkaline paper) : 019871274X (hardback : alkaline paper) |
| Index Number: | QA9 |
| CLC: | O17 |
| Call Number: | O17/H477 |
| Contents: | The old orthodoxy (Aristotle) vs the new orthodoxy (Dedekind-Cantor) -- The classical continuum without points -- Aristotelian and predicative continua -- Real numbers on an Aristotelian continuum -- Regions-based two-dimensional continua: the Euclidean case -- Non-Euclidean extensions -- The matter of points -- Scorecard -- References -- Index. |