From Dedekind to Gödel: Essays on the Development of the Foundations of Mathematics by Hintikka, Jaakko

From Dedekind to Gödel: Essays on the Development of the Foundations of Mathematics (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9789048145546)

Vendor: Jaakko Hintikka
Product type: Books
Format: Paperback
$219.99
$219.99
$219.99
Subtotal: $219.99
From Dedekind to Gödel: Essays on the Development of the Foundations of Mathematics by Hintikka, Jaakko

From Dedekind to Gödel: Essays on the Development of the Foundations of Mathematics

$219.99
From Dedekind to Gödel: Essays on the Development of the Foundations of Mathematics by Hintikka, Jaakko

From Dedekind to Gödel: Essays on the Development of the Foundations of Mathematics

$219.99
Format: Paperback
Description
Description
x
Discussions of the foundations of mathematics and their history are frequently restricted to logical issues in a narrow sense, or else to traditional problems of analytic philosophy. From Dedekind to Gödel: Essays on the Development of the Foundations of Mathematics illustrates the much greater variety of the actual developments in the foundations during the period covered. The viewpoints that serve this purpose included the foundational ideas of working mathematicians, such as Kronecker, Dedekind, Borel and the early Hilbert, and the development of notions like model and modelling, arbitrary function, completeness, and non-Archimedean structures. The philosophers discussed include not only the household names in logic, but also Husserl, Wittgenstein and Ramsey. Needless to say, such logically-oriented thinkers as Frege, Russell and Gödel are not entirely neglected, either.
Audience: Everybody interested in the philosophy and/or history of mathematics will find this book interesting, giving frequently novel insights.


Author: Jaakko Hintikka
ISBN-10: 9048145546
ISBN-13: 9789048145546
Publisher: Springer
Language: English
Published: 11/16/2010
Pages: 460
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.48lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.97d
By Jaakko Hintikka
By Jaakko Hintikka
x
Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese and the Managing Editor of Synthese Library since 1965.

Recently Viewed Products