Canadian philosopher and historian of mathematics who wrote the definitive philosophical study of Cantor's set theory and its foundational motivations.
Cantorian Set Theory and Limitation of Size: the standard philosophical-historical analysis of Cantor's set theory, the Burali-Forti and Russell paradoxes, and the limitation of size principle as the motivation for axiomatic set theory.
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