Title: Levels of infinity : selected writings on mathematics and philosophy /
Authors: Weyl, Hermann, 1885-1955; Pesic, Peter,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Mathematics Philosophy; Mathematics; Logic; Relativity (Physics); Logic; Mathematics; Mathematics Philosophy; Relativity (Physics)
Abstract: Anthology of eleven essays by mathematician Hermann Weyl, originally published 1930s-50s.
Contents: Levels of infinity (1930) -- Topology and abstract algebra as two roads of mathematical comprehension (1932) -- Emmy Noether (1935) -- Mathematical way of thinking (1940) -- David Hilbert, 1862-1943 (1944) -- David Hilbert and his mathematical work (1944) -- Mathematics and logic (1946) -- Relativity theory as a stimulus in mathematical research (1949) -- Half-century of mathematics (1951) -- Axiomatic versus constructive procedures in mathematics (1953) -- Why is the world four-dimensional? (1955).