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'Thinking About Mathematics', 'Justice: What's the right thing to do?' and 'works'
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / b. Types of number
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The number 3 is presumably identical as a natural, an integer, a rational, a real, and complex [Shapiro]
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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]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / k. Infinitesimals
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Weierstrass eliminated talk of infinitesimals [Weierstrass, by Kitcher]
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6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / l. Limits
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Weierstrass made limits central, but the existence of limits still needed to be proved [Weierstrass, by Bostock]
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