Plato's Ghost : The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics /
Plato's Ghost is the first book to examine the development of mathematics from 1880 to 1920 as a modernist transformation similar to those in art, literature, and music. Jeremy Gray traces the growth of mathematical modernism from its roots in problem solving and theory to its interactions with...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2008]
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Edición: | Course Book |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- 1 MODERNISM AND MATHEMATICS
- 2 BEFORE MODERNISM
- 3 MATHEMATICAL MODERNISM ARRIVES
- 4 MODERNISM AVOWED
- 5 FACES OF MATHEMATICS
- 6 MATHEMATICS, LANGUAGE, AND PSYCHOLOGY
- 7 AFTER THE WAR
- Appendix: Four Theorems in Projective Geometry
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index