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221-32
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p.79
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From the axiomatic point of view, mathematics is a storehouse of abstract structures
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Full Idea:
From the axiomatic point of view, mathematics appears as a storehouse of abstract forms - the mathematical structures.
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From:
Nicholas Bourbaki (The Architecture of Mathematics [1950], 221-32), quoted by Fraser MacBride - Review of Chihara's 'Structural Acc of Maths' p.79
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A reaction:
This seems to be the culmination of the structuralist view that developed from Dedekind and Hilbert, and was further developed by philosophers in the 1990s.
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