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Ideas for 'Thinking About Mathematics', 'Science and Method' and 'On Relations of Universals and Particulars'

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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 2. Geometry

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One geometry cannot be more true than another [Poincaré]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / b. Types of number

8763	The number 3 is presumably identical as a natural, an integer, a rational, a real, and complex [Shapiro]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / h. Reals from Cauchy

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Cauchy gave a formal definition of a converging sequence. [Shapiro]