
Roads to Infinity : The Mathematics of Truth and Proof
9781032927145 AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series Heftet
14.10.2024
Engelsk
I salg

Elements in the Philosophy of Mathematics
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Heftet
Leveringstid: 2-4 uker
Omtale
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.