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La recherche d’un fondement absolu des mathématiques par l’Ecole combinatoire de C. F. Hindenburg (1741-1808)

Philippe Séguin
p. 61-79

Abstracts

Carl Friedrich Hindenburg (1741-1808), founder of the “so-called Combinatorial School” (Eugen Netto), had been forgotten until recently. However, an article about him can be found in the Dictionary of Scientific Biography. The Combinatorial School was very successful in Germany — and there only — towards the end of the 18th century, but later fell into discredit.
In fact, it aimed at nothing less than founding analysis — and if possible the whole of mathematics — on a new branch of mathematics, combinatorial analysis, which was Hindenburg’s creation : the problematic of foundation was at the heart of Hindenburg’s endeavour.

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References

Bibliographical reference

Philippe Séguin, La recherche d’un fondement absolu des mathématiques par l’Ecole combinatoire de C. F. Hindenburg (1741-1808)Philosophia Scientiæ, CS 5 | 2005, 61-79.

Electronic reference

Philippe Séguin, La recherche d’un fondement absolu des mathématiques par l’Ecole combinatoire de C. F. Hindenburg (1741-1808)Philosophia Scientiæ [Online], CS 5 | 2005, Online since 01 August 2008, connection on 19 April 2024. URL: http://journals.openedition.org/philosophiascientiae/380; DOI: https://doi.org/10.4000/philosophiascientiae.380

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