Plato's ghost
Subtitle: mathematics and modernism at the end of the nineteenth century
By: Jeremy Gray.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Princeton, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 515
ISBN-13: 9780691136103
Subjects: Mathematics -- History -- 19th century; Mathematics -- Philosophy; Aesthetics, Modern -- 19th century
Description: Plato's Ghost examines the development of mathematics from 1880 to 1920 as a modernist transformation similar to those in art, literature, and music. --from publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.