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Direct linkViviane Durand-Guerrier – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2024
Understanding the concept of completeness for an ordered field is known to be difficult for many university mathematics students. We hypothesise that the variety of possible axioms of completeness for the set of real numbers is one of the sources of difficulties as is the lack of understanding of the "raison d'être" of these axioms. In…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Numbers, Number Concepts, Number Systems
