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Gnomes in the Fog: The Reception of Brouwer’s Intuitionism in the 1920s

By Dennis E. Hesseling (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Birkhäuser Basel
Year
2003
ISBN
978-3-0348-9394-7, 978-3-0348-7989-7
DOI
10.1007/978-3-0348-7989-7
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
16 MB (16253203 bytes)
Series
Science Networks. Historical Studies 28
Edition
1
Pages
448\463
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00
History of Mathematical Sciences; Mathematical Log

Description

The significance of foundational debate in mathematics that took place in the 1920s seems to have been recognized only in circles of mathematicians and philosophers. A period in the history of mathematics when mathematics and philosophy, usually so far away from each other, seemed to meet. The foundational debate is presented with all its brilliant contributions and its shortcomings, its new ideas and its misunderstandings.

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