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A Concise History of Mathematics for Philosophers . John Stillwell (University of San Francisco)

A Concise History of Mathematics for Philosophers . By John Stillwell (University of San Francisco)

A Concise History of Mathematics for Philosophers . by John Stillwell (University of San Francisco)


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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.

A Concise History of Mathematics for Philosophers . Summary

A Concise History of Mathematics for Philosophers . by John Stillwell (University of San Francisco)

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.

Table of Contents

Preface; 1. Irrational numbers and geometry; 2. Infinity in Greek mathematics; 3. Imaginary numbers; 4. Calculus and infinitesimals; 5. Continuous functions and real numbers; 6. From non-Euclidean geometry to arithmetic; 7. Set theory and its paradoxes; 8. Formal systems; 9. Unsolvability and incompleteness.

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NLS9781108456234
9781108456234
1108456235
A Concise History of Mathematics for Philosophers . by John Stillwell (University of San Francisco)
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Paperback
Cambridge University Press
2019-06-06
75
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