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A Concise History of Mathematics for Philosophers

John Stillwell author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:6th Jun '19

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Presents the outline of mathematics and its history, with particular emphasis on events that shook up its philosophy.

Presents an outline of mathematics and its history, with particular emphasis on events that shook up its philosophy. Ranges from ancient Greece to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century discoveries on the nature of infinity and proof. Recurring themes are intuition and logic, meaning and existence, and the discrete and the continuous.This Element aims to present an outline of mathematics and its history, with particular emphasis on events that shook up its philosophy. It ranges from the discovery of irrational numbers in ancient Greece to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century discoveries on the nature of infinity and proof. Recurring themes are intuition and logic, meaning and existence, and the discrete and the continuous. These themes have evolved under the influence of new mathematical discoveries and the story of their evolution is, to a large extent, the story of philosophy of mathematics.

ISBN: 9781108456234

Dimensions: 230mm x 150mm x 5mm

Weight: 100g

75 pages