Constructivism in Mathematics
Subtitle: An Introduction (Volume 1) (Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics)
Publisher: Butterworth Heinemann
Published: July 1, 1988
Language: eng
Number of pages: 380
ISBN-13: 9780444702661
First sentence: 1.1. Time and again, over the last hundred years certain mathematicians have defended an approach to mathematics which might be called "constructive" in the broad sense used in this book, in more or less explicit opposition to certain forms of mathematical reasoning used by the majority of their colleagues.