Abstract
WE have here the first part of a new series which is to contain sources (Section A) and studies (Section B) of the history of mathematics. The sources are to consist of original texts with translations and all necessary elucidations. No parts of this section are yet to hand; we shall welcome them when received. Three papers in the present part of Section B are on the relation of Plato and Aristotle to certain developments in mathematics; two of them connect themselves with recent efforts to find in one of the principles of Plato's idea-numbers, the ‘indefinite dyad’, or the ‘great and small’, gropings after a system of numbers which shall include not only integers but irrationals, after the fashion of G. Cantor and Dedekind.
Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte der Mathematik.
Herausgegeben von O. Neugebauer J. Stenzel O. Toeplitz. Abteilung B: Studien. Band 1, Heft 1. Pp. 112. (Berlin: Julius Springer, 1929.) 12 gold marks.
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H., T. Mathematical and Physical Sciences. Nature 124, 540 (1929). https://doi.org/10.1038/124540b0
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