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Full Idea
At the end of the nineteenth century there was a renewed emphasis on rigor, the central tool of which was axiomatization, along the lines of Hilbert's axioms for geometry and Dedekind's axioms for real numbers.
Gist of Idea
Hilbert's geometry and Dedekind's real numbers were role models for axiomatization
Source
Penelope Maddy (Defending the Axioms [2011], 1.3)
Book Ref
Maddy,Penelope: 'Defending the Axioms' [OUP 2013], p.31