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Philosophia Mathematica Advance Access originally published online on March 14, 2007
Philosophia Mathematica 2007 15(2):238-244; doi:10.1093/philmat/nkm004
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ALI BEHBOUD. Bolzanos Beiträge zur Mathematik und ihrer Philosophie [Bolzano's Contributions to Mathematics and its Philosophy]. Bern: Bern Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science, 2000. Pp. iii + 141. ISBN 3-8311-1026-3.

Paul Rusnock*

* Department of Philosophy, University of Ottawa, 70 Laurier Ave East, Ottawa, Ontario K1N 6N5 Canada

Correspondence: prusnock@uottawa.ca

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Bernard Bolzano (1781–1848) of Prague was one of the few thinkers of his time who combined real talent in mathematics and philosophy. He was especially drawn to the common ground between these fields, interested in questions of method and what would today be called foundations (a specialty which did not exist at the time, and which Bolzano himself might be said to have invented). Interestingly, he was neither a professional mathematician nor a professional philosopher. As a young man, he had decided that his first priority must be to work for the reform and improvement of society. This led him, after much reflection, to become a priest and to occupy a newly-created chair in religious science at the Charles University in 1805. In this post, he was widely known as what would later be called a dissident, denouncing abuses of power and the ills that were the consequence of the . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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