A concise history of mathematics for philosophers / John Stillwell.
Series: Cambridge elements. Elements in the philosophy of mathematicsCambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2019 ©2019Description: 69 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781108456234
- 510.9 .St857 2019
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 66-69)
Preface -- Irrational numbers and geometry -- Infinity in Greek mathematics -- Imaginary numbers -- Calculus and infinitesimals -- Continuous functions and real numbers -- From non-Euclidean Geometry to arithmetic -- Set theory and its paradoxes -- Formal systems -- Unsolvability and incompleteness
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. -- Provided by publisher
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