The Search for Mathematical Roots, 1870-1940 Unknown - 2001 - 1st Edition
by Grattan-Guinness, Ivor, Professor
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Language is an instrument of Logic, but not an indispensable instrument.
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"I know of no comparably comprehensive treatment of the history of this important period in modern logic. There is a large body of historical literature that is in need of just the kind of synthesis and masterly overview that this work provides. Though most people recognize mathematics as a principal motivating force behind the development of modern logic, the influences on and from mathematics have been largely ignored or minimized. The Search for Mathematical Roots acts as a guide through that challenging mathematical thicket."--Albert C. Lewis, chief editor of The History of Mathematics from Antiquity to the Present
"Ivor Grattan-Guinness provides a marvelous, comprehensive overview of the history of efforts to come to an understanding of mathematical logic and its relation to mathematics in the period 1870-1940. Given its rich detail and inclusion of under-appreciated figures who deserve to be better known, this is an especially important and useful book."--Joseph Dauben, author of George Cantor: His Mathematics and Philosophy of the Infinite
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- Title The Search for Mathematical Roots, 1870-1940
- Author Grattan-Guinness, Ivor, Professor
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- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Pages 624
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton
- Date January 15, 2001
- Features Bibliography
- ISBN 9780691058580
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1900-1949
- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
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