Concise History of Mathematics for Philosophers

Auteur: Stillwell, John (University of San Francisco)
Editeur: Cambridge University Press
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.
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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.
ISBN / EAN 9781108456234
Auteur Stillwell, John (University of San Francisco)
Editeur Cambridge University Press