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Record Nr.

UNINA9910953699703321

Titolo

From Kant to Hilbert : a source book in the foundations of mathematics . Volume II / / [edited by] William Ewald [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford : , : Clarendon, , 2023

ISBN

1-383-02109-0

1-282-36565-7

9786612365652

0-19-152310-0

1-4356-0966-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (709 pages)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

510/.1

510.1

Soggetti

Mathematics - Philosophy

Mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Originally published: 1996.

Previously issued in print: 2005.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 16. GEORG FRIEDRICH BERNHARD RIEMANN (1826-1866); 17. HERMANN VON HELMHOLTZ (1821-1894); 18. JULIUS WILHELM RICHARD DEDEKIND (1831-1916); 19. GEORG CANTOR (1845-1918); 20. LEOPOLD KRONECKER (1823-1891); 21. CHRISTIAN FELIX KLEIN (1849-1925); 22. JULES HENRI POINCARÉ (1854-1912); 23. THE FRENCH ANALYSTS; 24. DAVID HILBERT (1862-1943); 25. LUITZEN EGBERTUS JEAN BROUWER (1881-1966); 26. ERNST ZERMELO (1871-1953); 27. GODFREY HAROLD HARDY (1877-1947); 28. NICOLAUS BOURBAKI; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This two-volume work brings together a comprehensive selection of mathematical works from the period 1707-1930. During this time the foundations of modern mathematics were laid, and From Kant to Hilbert provides an overview of the foundational work in each of the main branches of mathmeatics with narratives showing how they were linked. Now available as a separate volume. - ;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 important nineteenth cnetury id