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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Hesseling, Dennis E.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basel Birkhäuser 2003, 2003
Edition:1st ed. 2003
Series:Science Networks. Historical Studies
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
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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
Physical Description:XXIII, 448 p online resource
ISBN:9783034879897