Locus (mathematics) (English Wikipedia)

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James, Robert Clarke; James, Glenn (1992), Mathematics Dictionary, Springer, p. 255, ISBN 978-0-412-99041-0.
Whitehead, Alfred North (1911), An Introduction to Mathematics, H. Holt, p. 121, ISBN 978-1-103-19784-2.
Cooke, Roger L. (2012), "38.3 Topology", The History of Mathematics: A Brief Course (3rd ed.), John Wiley & Sons, ISBN 9781118460290, The word locus is one that we still use today to denote the path followed by a point moving subject to stated constraints, although, since the introduction of set theory, a locus is more often thought of statically as the set of points satisfying a given collection.
Bourbaki, N. (2013), Elements of the History of Mathematics, translated by J. Meldrum, Springer, p. 26, ISBN 9783642616938, the classical mathematicians carefully avoided introducing into their reasoning the 'actual infinity'.
Borovik, Alexandre (2010), "6.2.4 Can one live without actual infinity?", Mathematics Under the Microscope: Notes on Cognitive Aspects of Mathematical Practice, American Mathematical Society, p. 124, ISBN 9780821847619.
Mayberry, John P. (2000), The Foundations of Mathematics in the Theory of Sets, Encyclopedia of Mathematics and its Applications, vol. 82, Cambridge University Press, p. 7, ISBN 9780521770347, set theory provides the foundations for all mathematics.