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Brouwer’s dissertation marked the beginning of two separate research activities that played an important role in the mathematics of the twentieth century. The first of these were his first steps in topology and Lie group theory, the second one opened up new directions in the foundations of mathematics. It is with the second one that we are concerned here; for the first one see Freudenthal’s comments in (Brouwer 1976).
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Dedicated to N.G. de Bruijn for his ninetieth birthday — in admiration and gratitude
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van Dalen, D. (2008). Another look at Brouwer’s dissertation. In: van Atten, M., Boldini, P., Bourdeau, M., Heinzmann, G. (eds) One Hundred Years of Intuitionism (1907–2007). Publications des Archives Henri Poincaré / Publications of the Henri Poincaré Archives. Birkhäuser Basel. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7643-8653-5_1
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