Frege
Subtitle: A Critical Introduction (Key Contemporary Thinkers)
Publisher: Polity Press
Published: February 1, 2001
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780745616735
Subjects: Analytical & linguistic philosophy; Western philosophy, c 1800 to c 1900; Philosophy; History & Surveys - Modern; Logic; FREGE, GOTTLOB, 1848-1925; LOGIC, MODERN; PHILOSOPHY, MODERN_20TH CENTURY; Philosophy / Modern
First sentence: Friedrich Ludwig Gottlob Frege was the founder of modern mathematical logic, which he created in his first book, Conceptual Notation, a Formula Language of Pure Thought Modelled upon the Formula Language of Arithmetic (Begriffsschrift, eine der arithmetischen nachgebildete Formalsprache des reinen Denkens (1879), translated in Frege 1972).