From Kant to Hilbert Volume 2
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| Rating | : | 4.21 (891 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0198505361 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 712 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-05-23 |
| Language | : | English |
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About the AuthorWilliam Bragg Ewald is Professor of Law and Philosophy at The University of Pennsylvania.
William Bragg Ewald is Professor of Law and Philosophy at The University of Pennsylvania.
Unparalleled Resource for Origins of Set and Number Theory While having the major writings of Dedekind, Cantor, and Zermelo expertly translated and collected into one volume would be enough to make this book well worth the price, as an added bonus there are also great works by Riemann, Hilbert, and others which serve to paint an awesome picture of the revolutionary state of mathematics in the late 19th and early 20th century. Anyone into set theory will learn much about its origins and early evolution in these pages, particularly from the correspondence between Dedekind and Cantor as well as from Cantor's groundbreaking and
Classic works by Bolzano, Riemann, Hamilton, Dedekind, and Poincare are reproduced in reliable translations and many selections from writers such as Gauss, Cantor, Kronecher, and Zermelo are here translated for the first time. They provide an insight into the foundations of each of the main branches of mathematics - algebra, geometry, number theory, analysis, logic, and set theory - with narratives to show how they are linked. This two-volume work provides an overview of this important era of mathematical research through a carefully chosen selection of articles. The collection is an invaluable source for anyone wishing to gain an understanding of the foundation of modern mathematics.. Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason is widely taken to be the starting point of the modern period of mathematics while David Hilbert was the last great mainstream mathematician to pursue importatn nineteenth century ideas