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'''''The Simplest Mathematics''''' is the title of a paper by [[Charles Sanders Peirce]], intended as Chapter 3 of his unfinished magnum opus ''The Minute Logic''. The paper is dated January–February 1902 but was not published until the appearance of his ''Collected Papers, Volume 4'' in 1933. Peirce introduces the subject of the paper as “certain extremely simple branches of mathematics which, owing to their utility in logic, have to be treated in considerable detail, although to the mathematician they are hardly worth consideration” (CP 4.227).
 
'''''The Simplest Mathematics''''' is the title of a paper by [[Charles Sanders Peirce]], intended as Chapter 3 of his unfinished magnum opus ''The Minute Logic''. The paper is dated January–February 1902 but was not published until the appearance of his ''Collected Papers, Volume 4'' in 1933. Peirce introduces the subject of the paper as “certain extremely simple branches of mathematics which, owing to their utility in logic, have to be treated in considerable detail, although to the mathematician they are hardly worth consideration” (CP 4.227).
  
==References==
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==Related topic==
  
* Peirce, Benjamin (1870), “Linear Associative Algebra”, § 1. See ''American Journal of Mathematics'' 4 (1881).
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* [[Kaina Stoicheia]]
  
* [[Charles Sanders Peirce (Bibliography)|Peirce, C.S., Bibliography]].
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==References==
  
* Peirce, C.S. (1902), “The Simplest Mathematics”, MS dated January–February 1902, intended as Chapter 3 of the "Minute Logic", CP 4.227–323 in ''Collected Papers''.
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* [[Charles Sanders Peirce (Bibliography)]].
  
* Peirce, C.S., ''Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce'', vols. 1–6, Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss (eds.), vols. 7–8, Arthur W. Burks (ed.), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1931–1935, 1958. Cited as CP volume.paragraph.  
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* Peirce, C.S. (1902), “The Simplest Mathematics”, MS dated January–February 1902, intended as Chapter 3 of the ''Minute Logic'', CP 4.227–323 in ''Collected Papers''.
  
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* Peirce, C.S., ''Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce'', vols. 1–6, Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss (eds.), vols. 7–8, Arthur W. Burks (ed.), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1931–1935, 1958. Cited as CP volume.paragraph.
  
* [[Foundations of mathematics]]
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[[Category:Charles Sanders Peirce]]
* [[Kaina Stoicheia]]
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* [[Philosophy of mathematics]]
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Latest revision as of 15:35, 11 November 2015

The Simplest Mathematics is the title of a paper by Charles Sanders Peirce, intended as Chapter 3 of his unfinished magnum opus The Minute Logic. The paper is dated January–February 1902 but was not published until the appearance of his Collected Papers, Volume 4 in 1933. Peirce introduces the subject of the paper as “certain extremely simple branches of mathematics which, owing to their utility in logic, have to be treated in considerable detail, although to the mathematician they are hardly worth consideration” (CP 4.227).

Related topic

References

  • Peirce, C.S. (1902), “The Simplest Mathematics”, MS dated January–February 1902, intended as Chapter 3 of the Minute Logic, CP 4.227–323 in Collected Papers.
  • Peirce, C.S., Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce, vols. 1–6, Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss (eds.), vols. 7–8, Arthur W. Burks (ed.), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1931–1935, 1958. Cited as CP volume.paragraph.