A tale of mathematical myth-making: E. T. Bell and the ‘arithmetization of algebra’
Throughout E. T. Bell’s writings on mathematics, both those aimed at other mathematicians and those for a popular audience, we find him endeavouring to promote abstract algebra generally, and the postulational method in particular. Bell evidently felt that the adoption of the latter approach to alge...
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Taylor and Francis
2015
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