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The origin of the logic of symbolic mathematics : Edmund Husserl and Jacob Klein

By Hopkins , Burt C

Book information

Publisher
Indiana University Press
Year
2011
ISBN
0253356717, 978-0-253-35671-0, 978-0-253-00527-4, 0253005272
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (3836307 bytes)
Series
Studies in Continental thought
Pages
559\592
Time added
2015-12-23 22:00:00
LogicSymbolic and mathematical. Mathematics -- Philosop

Description

Burt C. Hopkins presents the first in-depth study of the work of Edmund Husserl and Jacob Klein on the philosophical foundations of the logic of modern symbolic mathematics. Accounts of the philosophical origins of formalized concepts―especially mathematical concepts and the process of mathematical abstraction that generates them―have been paramount to the development of phenomenology. Both Husserl and Klein independently concluded that it is impossible to separate the historical origin of the thought that generates the basic concepts of mathematics from their philosophical meanings. Hopkins explores how Husserl and Klein arrived at their conclusion and its philosophical implications for the modern project of formalizing all knowledge.

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