Timeline for History of (proposal of) set-theoretic foundations
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| Sep 6, 2022 at 13:26 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | @MattF. Hmmm...area calculations in analytical geometry wouldn't necessarily have been thought of as "calculus" back then. But maybe I should re-read Russell. | |
| Sep 6, 2022 at 2:27 | comment | added | user44143 | @TimothyChow, the book is online — Russell explicitly included analytical geometry in traditional pure mathematics, which would include plenty of area calculations and therefore plenty of calculus. people.umass.edu/klement/imp/imp.html | |
| Sep 5, 2022 at 20:54 | comment | added | Timothy Chow | It's worth noting that the term "traditional pure mathematics," as used by Russell here, probably doesn't include calculus/analysis (which is "applied") or Cantor's infinite set theory (which was not "traditional"). | |
| Sep 5, 2022 at 19:09 | comment | added | Burak | Thank you. This passage from Russell aligns with the quotation that I wrote in the OP, namely, that "In the late nineteenth century, it was a widespread idea that pure mathematics is nothing but an elaborate form of arithmetic". | |
| Sep 5, 2022 at 15:17 | history | answered | Ben Burns | CC BY-SA 4.0 |