Essays on the foundations of mathematics
By: by Moritz Pasch ;  Stephen Pollard, editor
Contributors: Pollard, Stephen (Stephen Randall)
Series: The Western Ontario series in philosophy of science -- . 83; University of Western Ontario series in philosophy of science -- v. 83.
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Dordrecht; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 245
ISBN-13: 9789048194155
Subjects: Mathematics; [études diverses]; Philosophy; Symbolic and mathematical Logic; Mathématiques
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Translator's introduction; title: Fundamental questions of geometry; title: The decidability requirement; title: The origin of the concept of number; title: Implicit definition and the proper grounding of mathematics; title: Rigid bodies in geometry; title: Prelude to geometry : the essential ideas; title: Physical and mathematical geometry; title: Natural geometry; title: The concept of the differential; title: Reflections on the proper grounding of mathematics I; title: Concepts and proofs in mathematics; title: Dimension and space in mathematics; title: Reflections on the proper grounding of mathematics II; title: The axiomatic method in modern mathematics.