Varieties of Continua: From Regions to Points and Back

by Stewart Shapiro and Geoffrey Hellman

Varieties of Continua explores the development of the idea of the continuous. Hellman and Shapiro begin with two historical episodes. The first is the remarkably rapid transition in the course of the nineteenth century from the ancient Aristotelian view, that a true continuum cannot be composed of points, to the now standard, point-based frameworks for analysis and geometry found in modern mainstream mathematics (stemming from the work of Bolzano,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019871274X
• ISBN13: 9780198712749
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.3"