Mathematical Thought An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics

In contributing a foreword to this book I am complying with a wish my husband expressed a few days before his death. He had completed the manuscript of this work, which may be considered a companion volume to his book Formal Methods. The task of seeing it through the press was undertaken by Mr. J. J...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Beth, E.W.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht Springer Netherlands 1965, 1965
Edition:1st ed. 1965
Series:Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • I. Introduction
  • II. Criticism of Mathematics as Based on Naive Intuition
  • III. The Foundations of Arithmetic
  • IV. Symbolic Logic and Its Connections with Traditional Logic
  • V. Intuitionism and Formalism
  • VI. The Paradoxes
  • VII. Significs and Logic
  • VIII. Recent Developments
  • IX. Concluding Remarks
  • Index of Subjects
  • Index of Persons