The Search for Mathematical Roots, 1870-1940 : : Logics, Set Theories and the Foundations of Mathematics from Cantor through Russell to Gödel / / I. Grattan-Guinness.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2011] ©2001 |
| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (624 p.) :; 16 tables, 4 halftones, 3 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- CHAPTER 1. Explanations
- CHAPTER 2. Preludes: Algebraic Logic and Mathematical Analysis up to 1870
- CHAPTER 3. Cantor: Mathematics as Mengenlehre
- CHAPTER 4. Parallel Processes in Set Theory, Logics and Axiomatics, 1870s-1900s
- CHAPTER 5. Peano: the Formulary of Mathematics
- CHAPTER 6. Russell's Way In: From Certainty to Paradoxes, 1895-1903
- CHAPTER 7. Russell and Whitehead Seek the Principia Mathematica, 1903-1913
- CHAPTER 8. The Influence and Place of Logicism, 1910-1930
- CHAPTER 9. Postludes: Mathematical Logic and Logicism in the 1930s
- CHAPTER 10. The Fate of the Search
- CHAPTER 11. Transcription of Manuscripts
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX