Abstraction and infinity / / Paolo Mancosu

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910155495903321
• Autore: Mancosu Paolo
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Oxford : , : Oxford University Press, , 2017
• ISBN: 0-19-180909-8; 0-19-106380-0
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource
• Disciplina: 510.1
• Soggetti: Abstraction; Infinite
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: This edition previously issued in print: 2016.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Sommario/riassunto: Mancosu offers an original investigation of key notions in mathematics: abstraction and infinity, and their interaction. He gives a historical analysis of the theorizing of definitions by abstraction, and explores a novel approach to measuring the size of infinite sets, showing how this leads to deep mathematical and philosophical problems.