Philosophies of Mathematics

Name: Philosophies of Mathematics
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ISBN: 9780631195443

ISBN-10: 0631195440

ISBN-13: 9780631195443

Edition: 2001

Authors: Daniel J. Velleman, Alexander L. George

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During the first few decades of the twentieth century, philosophers and mathematicians mounted a sustained effort to clarify the nature of mathematics. This led to considerable discord, even enmity, and yielded fascinating and fruitful work of both a mathematical and a philosophical nature. It was one of the most exhilarating intellectual adventures of the century, pursued at an extraordinarily high level of acuity and imagination. Its legacy principally consists of three original and finely articulated programs that seek to view mathematics in the proper light: logicism, intuitionism, and finitism. Each is notable for its symbiotic melding together of philosophical vision and mathematical…

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List price: $48.95
Copyright year: 2001
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated
Publication date: 12/3/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 244
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English



Preface


Introduction


Logicism


Set Theory


Intuitionism


Intuitionistic Mathematics


Finitism


The Incompleteness Theorems


Coda


References


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