Mathematical Thought: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics (Synthese Library, 11)

Beth, E.W.

ISBN 10: 9027700702 / ISBN 13: 9789027700704

Editore: Springer, 1965

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• Titolo: Mathematical Thought: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics (Synthese Library, 11)
• Editore: Springer
• Data di pubblicazione: 1965
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 9027700702
• ISBN 13: 9789027700704
• Rilegatura: Rilegato
• Condizione: New

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In contributing a foreword to this book I am complying with a wish my husband expressed a few days before his death. He had completed the manuscript of this work, which may be considered a companion volume to his book Formal Methods. The task of seeing it through the press was undertaken by Mr. J. J. A. Mooij, acting director of the Institute for Research in Foundations and the Philosophy of Science (Instituut voor Grondslagenonderzoek en Filoso:fie der Exacte Wetenschappen) of the University of Amsterdam, with the help of Mrs. E. M. Barth, lecturer at the Institute. I wish to thank Mr. Mooij and Mrs. Barth most cordially for the care with which they have acquitted themselves of this delicate task and for the speed with which they have brought it to completion. I also wish to express my gratitude to Miss L. E. Minning, M. A. , for the helpful advice she has so kindly given to Mr. Mooij and Mrs. Barth during the proof reading. C. P. C. BETH-PASTOOR VII PREFACE A few years ago Mr. Horace S.

Contenuti

I. Introduction.- II. Criticism of Mathematics as Based on Naive Intuition.- III. The Foundations of Arithmetic.- IV. Symbolic Logic and Its Connections with Traditional Logic.- V. Intuitionism and Formalism.- VI. The Paradoxes.- VII. Significs and Logic.- VIII. Recent Developments.- IX. Concluding Remarks.- Index of Subjects.- Index of Persons.