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'''''The Simplest Mathematics''''' is the title of a paper by [[Charles Sanders Peirce]], intended as Chapter&nbsp;3 of his unfinished magnum opus ''The Minute Logic''. The paper is dated January&ndash;February 1902 but was not published until the appearance of his ''Collected Papers, Volume&nbsp;4'' in 1933. Peirce introduces the subject of the paper as &ldquo;certain extremely simple branches of mathematics which, owing to their utility in logic, have to be treated in considerable detail, although to the mathematician they are hardly worth consideration&rdquo; (CP&nbsp;4.227).

==Related topic==

* [[Kaina Stoicheia]]

==References==

* [[Charles Sanders Peirce (Bibliography)]].

* Peirce, C.S. (1902), &ldquo;The Simplest Mathematics&rdquo;, MS dated January&ndash;February 1902, intended as Chapter&nbsp;3 of the ''Minute Logic'', CP&nbsp;4.227&ndash;323 in ''Collected Papers''.

* Peirce, C.S., ''Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce'', vols. 1&ndash;6, Charles Hartshorne and Paul Weiss (eds.), vols. 7&ndash;8, Arthur W. Burks (ed.), Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, 1931&ndash;1935, 1958. Cited as CP&nbsp;volume.paragraph.

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