The adventure of reason
Subtitle: interplay between philosophy of mathematics and mathematical logic, 1900-1940
By: Paolo Mancosu
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 618
ISBN-13: 9780199546534
Subjects: Mathematics; Philosophy; History
Description: Paolo Mancosu presents an innovative set of studies of logic and the foundations of mathematics in the first half of the 20th century. He sheds new light on important topics such as the relationship between phenomenology and the exact sciences, the nature of truth and logical consequence, and the nature of mathematical intuition.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [571]-610) and index.