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The Palgrave Centenary Companion to Principia Mathematica

By Nicholas Griffin , Bernard Linsky

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2013
ISBN
1137344628, 9781137344625
Google Books ID
flCvAgAAQBAJ
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (4868769 bytes)
Series
History of Analytic Philosophy
Pages
xxviii+458\487
Orientation
yes
Paginated
yes
Scanned
portrait
Time added
2014-04-26 20:24:39

Description

This collection of fifteen new essays marks the centenary of the 1910 to 1913 publication of the monumental Principia Mathematica by Alfred N. Whitehead and Bertrand Russell. The papers study the influence of PM on the development of symbolic logic in the twentieth century, Russell's philosophy of logic and his program of reducing mathematics to logic, the distinctive theory of logical types that provides a response to the paradoxes of logic that Russell and others discovered around 1900, as well as the details of some of the mathematical theories in the three volumes of symbolic proofs.

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