## Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic

### Book Review: Paolo Mancuso. Philosophy of Mathematics and Mathematical Practice in the Seventeenth Century

Craig Fraser

#### Article information

Source
Notre Dame J. Formal Logic Volume 40, Number 3 (1999), 447-454.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 28 May 2002

Permanent link to this document
http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ndjfl/1022615621

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1305/ndjfl/1022615621

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MRBRfraser403

#### Citation

Fraser, Craig. Book Review: Paolo Mancuso. Philosophy of Mathematics and Mathematical Practice in the Seventeenth Century . Notre Dame J. Formal Logic 40 (1999), no. 3, 447--454. doi:10.1305/ndjfl/1022615621. http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ndjfl/1022615621.

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