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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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
2000.
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Table des matières:
- 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.


