The Infinite in Mathematics Logico-mathematical writings

The Infinite in Mathematics Logico-mathematical writings / by Felix Kaufmann ; edited by B.F. McGuinness.

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 (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: McGuinness, B.F (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1978.
Edition:1st ed. 1978.
Series:Vienna Circle Collection ; 9
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Philosophy and science.
Mathematical logic.
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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.

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