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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Basel :
Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser,
2003.
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| Series: | Science networks historical studies ;
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Table of Contents:
- Kronecker, the semi-intuitionists, Poincaré
- The genesis of Brouwer's intuitionism
- Description of the foundational debate
- Reactions: existence and constructivity
- Reactions: logic and the excluded middle
- The foundational crisis in its context.