Foundations of mathematics | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 2019-01-11

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00:03:31 1 Historical context
00:03:41 1.1 Ancient Greek mathematics
00:06:14 1.2 Platonism as a traditional philosophy of mathematics
00:09:23 1.3 Middle Ages and Renaissance
00:12:09 1.4 19th century
00:12:34 1.4.1 Real analysis
00:14:42 1.4.2 Group theory
00:16:42 1.4.3 Non-Euclidean geometries
00:18:23 1.4.4 Projective geometry
00:20:40 1.4.5 Boolean algebra and logic
00:24:01 1.4.6 Peano arithmetic
00:24:57 2 Foundational crisis
00:27:38 2.1 Philosophical views
00:28:00 2.1.1 Formalism
00:32:29 2.1.2 Intuitionism
00:34:14 2.1.3 Logicism
00:34:53 2.1.4 Set-theoretic Platonism
00:36:06 2.1.5 Indispensability argument for realism
00:36:45 2.1.6 Rough-and-ready realism
00:39:04 2.1.7 Philosophical consequences of Gödel's completeness theorem
00:42:43 2.2 More paradoxes
00:46:58 3 Partial resolution of the crisis
00:49:44 4 See also



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Foundations of mathematics is the study of the philosophical and logical and/or algorithmic basis of mathematics, or, in a broader sense, the mathematical investigation of what underlies the philosophical theories concerning the nature of mathematics. In this latter sense, the distinction between foundations of mathematics and philosophy of mathematics turns out to be quite vague.
Foundations of mathematics can be conceived as the study of the basic mathematical concepts (set, function, geometrical figure, number, etc.) and how they form hierarchies of more complex structures and concepts, especially the fundamentally important structures that form the language of mathematics (formulas, theories and their models giving a meaning to formulas, definitions, proofs, algorithms, etc.) also called metamathematical concepts, with an eye to the philosophical aspects and the unity of mathematics. The search for foundations of mathematics is a central question of the philosophy of mathematics; the abstract nature of mathematical objects presents special philosophical challenges.
The foundations of mathematics as a whole does not aim to contain the foundations of every mathematical topic.
Generally, the foundations of a field of study refers to a more-or-less systematic analysis of its most basic or fundamental concepts, its conceptual unity and its natural ordering or hierarchy of concepts, which may help to connect it with the rest of human knowledge. The development, emergence and clarification of the foundations can come late in the history of a field, and may not be viewed by everyone as its most interesting part.
Mathematics always played a special role in scientific thought, serving since ancient times as a model of truth and rigor for rational inquiry, and giving tools or even a foundation for other sciences (especially physics). Mathematics' many developments towards higher abstractions in the 19th century brought new challenges and paradoxes, urging for a deeper and more systematic examination of the nature and criteria of mathematical truth, as well as a unification of the diverse branches of mathematics into a coherent whole.
The systematic search for the foundations of mathematics started at the end of the 19th century and formed a new mathematical discipline called mathematical logic, with strong links to theoretical computer science.
It went through a series of crises with paradoxical results, until the discoveries stabilized during the 20th century as a large and coherent body of mathematical knowledge with several aspects or components (set theory, model theory, proof theory, etc.), whose detailed properties and possible variants are still an active research field.
Its high level of technical sophistication inspired many philosophers to conjecture that it can serve as a model or pattern for the foundations of other sciences.