Mathematics, the loss of certainty
By: Morris Kline
Series: Barnes & Noble rediscovers
Publisher: Barnes & Noble
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 448
ISBN-13: 9781435108479
Subjects: Mathematics; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 426-431) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the thesis --; title: Genesis of mathematical truths --; title: Flowering of mathematical truths --; title: Mathematization of science --; title: First debacle: the withering of truth --; title: Illogical development of logical subject --; title: Illogical development: the morass of analysis --; title: Illogical development: the predicament circa 1800 --; title: Illogical development: at the gates of paradise --; title: Paradise barred: a new crisis of reason --; title: Logicism versus intuitionism --; title: Formalist and set-theoretic foundations --; title: Disasters --; title: Isolation of mathematics --; title: Whither mathematics --; title: Authority of nature.