"An article by Henri Poincaré entitled The Nature of Mathematical Reasoning... appeared in 1894 as the first of a series of investigations into the foundations of the exact sciences. It was a signal for a throng of other mathematicians to inaugurate a movement for the revision of the classical concepts, a movement which culminated in the nearly complete absorption of logic into the body of mathematics."

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Tobias Dantzig, ' (1930).

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