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From foundations to philosophy of mathematics: an historical account of their development in the XX century and beyond

From Foundations to Philosophy of Mathematics provides an historical introduction to the most exciting period in the foundations of mathematics, starting with the discovery of the paradoxes of logic and set theory at the beginning of the twentieth century and continuing with the great foundational d...

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Autor principal: Roselló, Joan
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: Cambridge Scholars Publ. 2012
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Acceso en línea:http://cds.cern.ch/record/2237775
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Sumario:From Foundations to Philosophy of Mathematics provides an historical introduction to the most exciting period in the foundations of mathematics, starting with the discovery of the paradoxes of logic and set theory at the beginning of the twentieth century and continuing with the great foundational debate that took place in the 1920s. As a result of the efforts of several mathematicians and philosophers during this period to ground mathematics and to clarify its nature from a certain philosoph...