Author: Nielsen, Rasmus [1809-1884]
Title: Om begrebet nøiagtighed med særligt hensyn paa Steens "Bidrag" : Efterskrift til ’Philosophie og mathematik
Description: Kjøbenhavn, Gyldendalske Boghandling, 1860. orig.wrappers. 21x13cm, 55 pp.. Small tear to spine. Some rubbing. Good. ¶ Text entirely in Danish. "On the concept of exactness". Idealist philosopher [leading follower of Kierkegaard] Nielsen's response to a polemical attack by mathematician Adolph Steen [1816-1886] in his pamphlet 'Bidrag til en kritik af Prof. R. Nielsens Philosophie og mathematik'. [ Steen was later noted for his 1874 contribution to the theory of differential equations].

Keywords: Philosophy of Mathematics, Mathematical, Symbolic Logic, Science, Exactness, Adolph Steen, , ,