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Gnomes in the Fog
Dennis E. Hesseling
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Description for Gnomes in the Fog
Hardback. 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. This book presents the foundational debate in a period in the history of mathematics when mathematics and philosophy, usually so far away from each other, seemed to meet. Series: Science Networks. Historical Studies. Num Pages: 471 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJG; PBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 238 x 168 x 36. Weight in Grams: 832.
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.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Birkhauser Verlag AG Switzerland
Number of pages
471
Condition
New
Series
Science Networks. Historical Studies
Number of Pages
448
Place of Publication
Basel, Switzerland
ISBN
9783764365363
SKU
V9783764365363
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99-15
Reviews for Gnomes in the Fog
"L.E.J. Brouwer is best known to many mathematicians for his seminal contributions to topology. He is also the founder of mathematical intuitionism, and a key player in the debate on foundations of mathematics that raged for a brief decade in the 1920s, and then subsided. Gnomes in the Fog tells the story of that important and influential episode in the ... Read more