1.

Record Nr.

UNISOBE600200014991

Autore

El-Said, Issam

Titolo

Islamic Art and Architecture : The System of Geometric Design / Issam El-Said ; ed. by Tarek El-Bouri & Keith Crichlow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Reading, : Garnet Publishing Ltd. & Southern Court, 1993

Descrizione fisica

136 p. : ill. 33 cm.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910963848103321

Autore

Marion Mathieu <1962->

Titolo

Wittgenstein, finitism, and the foundations of mathematics / / Mathieu Marion

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford, : Clarendon Press

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998

ISBN

0-19-170155-6

0-19-156832-5

1-281-99876-1

9786611998769

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 p.)

Collana

Oxford philosophical monographs

Disciplina

510/.1

Soggetti

Mathematics - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [237]-252) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Abbreviations; 1. Introduction: Wittgenstein's Anti-Platonism; 2. Logicism without Classes; 3. Arbitrary Functions; 4. Quantification and Finitism; 5. From Truth-Functional Logic to a Logic of Equations; 6. Philosophy and Logical Foundations; 7. The



Continuum; 8. Strict Finitism; References; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Mathieu Marion traces the development of Wittgenstein's thinking from the 1920's through to the 1950's, in the context of the mathematical and philosophical work of the time, making sense of ideas that have often been misunderstood. He shows that study of Wittgenstein's writings on mathematics is essential to a proper understanding of his philosophy. - ;Mathieu Marion offers a careful, historically informed study of Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics. This area of his work has frequently been undervalued by Wittgenstein specialists and by philosophers of mathematics alike; but the surprisi