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

by David Charles McCarty

Book Overview

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 G?del: 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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0792334841
• ISBN13: 9780792334842
• Release Date: November 1995
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 1.89 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.2"