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The search for mathematical roots, 1870-1940 : logics, set theories and the foundations of mathematics from Cantor through Russell to Gödel /

While many books have been written about Bertrand Russell's philosophy and some on his logic, I. Grattan-Guinness has written the first comprehensive history of the mathematical background, content, and impact of the mathematical logic and philosophy of mathematics that Russell developed with A...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Grattan-Guinness, I.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2000.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Explanations
  • Preludes : algebraic logic and mathematical analysis up to 1870
  • Cantor : mathematics as Mengenlehre
  • Parallel processes in set theory, logics and axiomatics, 1870s-1900s
  • Peano : the formulary of mathematics
  • Russell's way in : from certainty to paradoxes, 1895-1903
  • Russell and Whitehead seek the Principia Mathematica, 1903-1913
  • The influence and place of logicism, 1910-1930
  • Postludes : mathematical logic and logicism in the 1930s
  • The fate of the search
  • Transcription of manuscripts.