The Infinite in Mathematics Logico-mathematical writings

The main item in the present volume was published in 1930 under the title Das Unendliche in der Mathematik und seine Ausschaltung. It was at that time the fullest systematic account from the standpoint of Husserl's phenomenology of what is known as 'finitism' (also as 'intuitioni...

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Main Author: Kaufmann, Felix
Other Authors: McGuinness, B.F. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1978, 1978
Edition:1st ed. 1978
Series:Vienna Circle Collection
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • The Infinite in Mathematics and its Elimination (1930)
  • Preface
  • Analytic Table of Contents
  • 1. Basic Facts of Cognition
  • II. Symbolism and Axiomatics
  • III. Natural Number and Set
  • IV. Negative Numbers, Fractions and Irrational Numbers
  • V. Set Theory
  • VI. The Problem of Complete Decidability of Arithmetical Questions
  • VII. The Antinomies
  • Remarks on the Controversy about the Foundations of Logic and Mathematics (1931)
  • Questions of Logical Principle in the Investigation of the Foundations of Mathematics (ca. 1931)
  • Bibliography of the Published Writings of Felix Kaufman
  • Bibliography of Works cited in the Present Volume
  • Index of Names