Jules Richard
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Jules Antoine Richard (1862-1956) was a French mathematician.
He authored Sur la nature des axiomes de la géométrie, an investigation of the nature of axioms in geometry: are they necessarily true, are they arbitrary assumptions, are they definitions?
He is best remembered for creation of the Richard Paradox, a variant of Cantor's diagonal argument.
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Publication in English
- 1905. "The principles of mathematics and the problem of sets" in Jean van Heijenoort, 1967. A Source Book in Mathematical Logic, 1879-1931. Harvard Univ. Press: 142-44.fr:Jules Richard