Gnomes in the Fog The Reception of Brouwer’s Intuitionism in the 1920s

Gnomes in the Fog The Reception of Brouwer’s Intuitionism in the 1920s / by Dennis E. Hesseling.

The significance of foundational debate in mathematics that took place in the 1920s seems to have been recognized only in circles of mathematicians and philosophers. A period in the history of mathematics when mathematics and philosophy, usually so far away from each other, seemed to meet. The found...

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Main Author: Hesseling, Dennis E. (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Basel : Birkhäuser Basel : Imprint: Birkhäuser, 2003.
Edition:1st ed. 2003.
Series:Science Networks. Historical Studies, 28
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Mathematics.
History.
Mathematical logic.
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Summary:The significance of foundational debate in mathematics that took place in the 1920s seems to have been recognized only in circles of mathematicians and philosophers. A period in the history of mathematics when mathematics and philosophy, usually so far away from each other, seemed to meet. The foundational debate is presented with all its brilliant contributions and its shortcomings, its new ideas and its misunderstandings.
Physical Description:XXIII, 448 p. online resource.
ISBN:9783034879897
ISSN:1421-6329 ;
DOI:10.1007/978-3-0348-7989-7

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