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Positive Thinking. Conceptions of Negative Quantities in the Netherlands and the Reception of Lacroix’s Algebra Textbook

Danny J. Beckers (2000)

Revue d'histoire des mathématiques

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The beginning of the 19th century witnessed the emergence of several new approaches to negative numbers. New notions of rigour made the 18th century conceptions of negative quantities unacceptable. This paper discusses theories of negative numbers emerging in the Netherlands in the early 19th century. Dutch mathematicians then opted for a different approach than that of their contemporaries, in Germany or France. The Dutch translation (1821) of Lacroix’s illustrates the ‘Dutch’ notion...

Leopold Kronecker’s conception of the foundations of mathematics

Jacqueline Boniface (2005)

Philosophia Scientiae

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Most of the time, Kronecker’s views on the foundations of mathematics are reduced to some scattered ideas. However, they constitute an original and coherent doctrine, justified by epistemological convictions. This doctrine appears in the article , published in the (1887) and, especially, in the last course taught by Kronecker, which took place in Berlin during the 1891 summer semester. This article would precise the principles and the insights of the Kroneckerian doctrine and then compare...