A Concise History of Mathematics for Philosophers

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A Concise History of Mathematics for Philosophers
A Concise History of Mathematics for Philosophers
Author : John Stillwell
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Language : English
Release Date : 06 June 2019
ISBN : 9781108456234
Pages : 77 pages
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A Concise History of Mathematics for Philosophers by John Stillwell Book PDF Summary

This Element aims to present an outline of mathematics and its history, with particular emphasis on events that shook up its philosophy. It ranges from the discovery of irrational numbers in ancient Greece to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century discoveries on the nature of infinity and proof. Recurring themes are intuition and logic, meaning and existence, and the discrete and the continuous. These themes have evolved under the influence of new mathematical discoveries and the story of their evolution is, to a large extent, the story of philosophy of mathematics.