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  1. In the shadows of the löwenheim-Skolem theorem: Early combinatorial analyses of mathematical proofs.Jan von Plato - 2007 - Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 13 (2):189-225.
    The Löwenheim-Skolem theorem was published in Skolem's long paper of 1920, with the first section dedicated to the theorem. The second section of the paper contains a proof-theoretical analysis of derivations in lattice theory. The main result, otherwise believed to have been established in the late 1980s, was a polynomial-time decision algorithm for these derivations. Skolem did not develop any notation for the representation of derivations, which makes the proofs of his results hard to follow. Such a formal notation is (...)
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  • On the creative role of axiomatics. The discovery of lattices by Schröder, Dedekind, Birkhoff, and others.Dirk Schlimm - 2011 - Synthese 183 (1):47-68.
    Three different ways in which systems of axioms can contribute to the discovery of new notions are presented and they are illustrated by the various ways in which lattices have been introduced in mathematics by Schröder et al. These historical episodes reveal that the axiomatic method is not only a way of systematizing our knowledge, but that it can also be used as a fruitful tool for discovering and introducing new mathematical notions. Looked at it from this perspective, the creative (...)
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