Ernst Schröder on Algebra and Logic

Book Overview

This volume offers English translations of three early works by Ernst Schr der (1841-1902), a mathematician and logician whose philosophical ruminations and pathbreaking contributions to algebraic logic attracted the admiration and ire of figures such as Dedekind, Frege, Husserl, and C. S. Peirce. Today he still engages the sympathetic interest of logicians and philosophers.

The works translated record Schr der's journey out of algebra into algebraic logic and document his transformation of George Boole's opaque and unwieldy logical calculus into what we now recognize as Boolean algebra. Readers interested in algebraic logic and abstract algebra can look forward to a tour of the early history of those fields with a guide who was exceptionally thorough, unfailingly honest, and deeply reflective.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031056736
• ISBN13: 9783031056734
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 342 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"