Title: Plato's ghost : the modernist transformation of mathematics /
Authors: Gray, Jeremy, 1947-
Publisher: Princeton University Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Mathematics History; Mathematics Philosophy; Aesthetics, Modern
Abstract: 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.
Contents: Modernism and mathematics -- Before modernism -- Mathematical modernism arrives -- Modernism avowed -- Faces of mathematics -- Mathematics, language, and psychology -- After the war.