"[D]uring the last half-century, number and measurable quantity have been separated... the idea of number alone has been recognized as the foundation upon which Mathematical Analysis rests, and the theory of extensive magnitude is now regarded as a separate department in which the methods of Analysis are applicable, but as no longer forming part of the foundation upon which Analysis itself rests."
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E. W. Hobson, Mathematics, from the points of view of the Mathematician and of the Physicist (1912) p. 8.
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