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Sunday, June 16, 2013

Griceianism Without Infinity -- in memoriam Leopold Kronecker

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Mathematics without infinity.

Leopold Kronecker was skeptical of the notion of infinity and how his fellow mathematicians were using it in 1870s and 1880s.

This skepticism was developed in the philosophy of mathematics called finitism, an extreme form of the philosophical and mathematical schools of constructivism and intuitionism.

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