Gnomes in the Fog : The Reception of Brouwer's Intuitionism in the 1920s /
The significance of foundational debate in mathematics that took place in the 1920s seems to have been recognized only in circles of mathematicians and philosophers. A period in the history of mathematics when mathematics and philosophy, usually so far away from each other, seemed to meet. The found...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Basel :
Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser,
2003.
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| Series: | Science networks historical studies ;
28. |
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | The significance of foundational debate in mathematics that took place in the 1920s seems to have been recognized only in circles of mathematicians and philosophers. A period in the history of mathematics when mathematics and philosophy, usually so far away from each other, seemed to meet. The foundational debate is presented with all its brilliant contributions and its shortcomings, its new ideas and its misunderstandings. |
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| Item Description: | Electronic resource. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxiii, 448 pages) |
| ISBN: | 9783034879897 (electronic bk.) 303487989X (electronic bk.) |