Hugh MacColl and Lewis Carroll: Crosscurrents in geometry and logic
In a letter to Bertrand Russell, dated 17 May 1905, Hugh MacColl tells how he abandoned the study of logic after 1884 for about thirteen years and how it was the reading of Lewis Carroll’s Symbolic Logic (1896) that ”rekindled the old fire which [he] thought extinct.” From then onwards, he published...
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Éditions Kimé
2011-04-01
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Series: | Philosophia Scientiæ |
Online Access: | http://journals.openedition.org/philosophiascientiae/362 |