Great feuds in mathematics
Subtitle: ten of the liveliest disputes ever
By: Hal Hellman.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 250
Subjects: Mathematics -- History; Mathematicians -- History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Tartaglia versus Cardano. Solving cubic equations; title: Descartes versus Fermat. Analytic geometry and optics; title: Newton versus Leibniz. Credit for the calculus; title: Bernoulli versus Bernoulli. Sibling rivalry of the highest order; title: Sylvester versus Huxley. Ivory tower or real world?; title: Kronecker versus Cantor. Mathematical insanity; title: Borel versus Zermelo. The "notorious axiom"; title: Poincar versus Russell. The logical foundations of mathematics; title: Hilbert versus Brouwer. Formalism versus intuitionism; title: Absolutists/platonists versus fallibilists/constructionists. Are mathematical advances discoveries or inventions?