Plato's ghost : the modernist transformation of mathematics

Plato's ghost : the modernist transformation of mathematics / Jeremy Gray.

Plato's Ghost examines the development of mathematics from 1880 to 1920 as a modernist transformation similar to those in art, literature, and music. --from publisher description

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gray, Jeremy, 1947-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.
Subjects:
Mathematics > History > 19th century.
Mathematics > Philosophy.
Aesthetics, Modern > 19th century.
Table of Contents:
  • Modernism and mathematics
  • Before modernism
  • Mathematical modernism arrives
  • Modernism avowed
  • Faces of mathematics
  • Mathematics, language, and psychology
  • After the war.

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