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Dictionary of the History of Ideas

Studies of Selected Pivotal Ideas
  
  

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

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SALOMON BOCHNER

[See also Infinity; Mathematical Rigor; Newton on Method;
Relativity; Renaissance Humanism; Space; Symmetry.]