A Concise History of Mathematics for Philosophers by John Stillwell

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A Concise History of Mathematics for Philosophers by John Stillwell

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Presents an outline of mathematics and its history, with particular emphasis on events that shook up its philosophy. Ranges from ancient Greece to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century discoveries on the nature of infinity and proof. Recurring themes are intuition and logic, meaning and existence, and the discrete and the continuous.

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A Concise History of Mathematics for Philosophers by John Stillwell

This Element aims to present an outline of mathematics and its history, with particular emphasis on events that shook up its philosophy. It ranges from the discovery of irrational numbers in ancient Greece to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century discoveries on the nature of infinity and proof. Recurring themes are intuition and logic, meaning and existence, and the discrete and the continuous. These themes have evolved under the influence of new mathematical discoveries and the story of their evolution is, to a large extent, the story of philosophy of mathematics.

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ISBN 13 9781108456234
ISBN 10 1108456235
Title A Concise History of Mathematics for Philosophers
Author John Stillwell
Series Elements In The Philosophy Of Mathematics
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Binding type Paperback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 2019-06-06
Number of pages 75
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