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In the days of our forefathers, when an unsuccessful politician had reached the end of his career, it was customary to grant him one last privilege, that of delivering an address upon topics chosen by himself to the assembled multitude on Tower Hill. Although my conscience acquits me of having been guilty during my period of office of conduct traitorous to the interests of our Society, I avail myself of the corresponding privilege accorded by our custom to a retiring President.
This address first appeared in the Proceedings of the London Mathematical Society 35, 117–140 (1902). We are grateful to the LMS for permission to publish it here.
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See Abel’s correspondence, p. 16, in the volume Niels Henrik Abel: Mémorial publié a l’occasion du centenaire de sa naissance.
It is not intended here to prejudge the questions as to the part which intuition may have in the formation of the concepts of number.
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Hobson, E.W. (1994). On the Infinite and the Infinitesimal in Mathematical Analysis. In: Ehrlich, P. (eds) Real Numbers, Generalizations of the Reals, and Theories of Continua. Synthese Library, vol 242. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8248-3_1
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