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On the History of Number Line

2015/03/02 by Galina Sinkevich, Sinkevich, Galina
Mathematics · #FOS: Mathematics #History and Overview (math.HO) #History and Theory of Mathematics

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1503.03117

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Abstract

The notion of number line was formed in XX c. We consider the generation of this conception in works by M. Stiefel (1544), Galilei (1633), Euler (1748), Lambert (1766), Bolzano (1830-1834), Meray (1869-1872), Cantor (1872), Dedekind (1872), Heine (1872) and Weierstrass (1861-1885).

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