The adventure of reason : interplay between philosophy of mathematics and mathematical logic, 1900-1940 / Paolo Mancosu.
| Author/creator | Mancosu, Paolo |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2010. |
| Description | xii, 618 pages ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199546534.001.0001 |
| Subjects |
| Contents | The development of mathematical logic from Russell to Tarski, 1900-1935 (with Richard Zach and Calixto Badesa) -- Hilbert and Bernays on metamathematics ; addendum -- Between Russell and Hilbert : Behmann on the foundations of mathematics -- The Russellian influence on Hilbert and his school -- On the constructivity of proofs : a debate among Behmann, Bernays, Gödel, and Kaufmann -- Wittgenstein's constructivization of Euler's proof of the infinity of primes (with Mathieu Marion) -- Between Vienna and Berlin : the immediate reception of Godel's incompleteness theorems -- Review of Gödel's collected works, vols. IV and V -- Hermann Weyl : predicativity and an intuitionistic excursion -- Mathematics and phenomenology : the correspondence between O. Becker and H. Weyl (with T. Ryckman) -- Geometry, physics, and phenomenology : four letters of O. Becker to H. Weyl (with T. Ryckman) -- "Das Abenteuer der Vernunft" : O. Becker and D. Mahnke on the phenomenological foundations of the exact sciences -- Harvard 1940-1941 : Tarski, Carnap, and Quine on the finitistic language of mathematics for science -- Quine and Tarski on nominalism -- Tarski, Neurath, and Kokoszyńska on the semantic conception of truth -- Tarski on models and logical consequence ; addendum -- Tarski on categoricity and completeness : an unpublished lecture from 1940 -- Appendix : "On the completeness and categoricity of deductive systems" (1940). |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (p. [571]-610) and index. |
| LCCN | 2011286586 |
| ISBN | 9780199546534 (hbk.) |
| ISBN | 0199546533 (hbk.) |
Availability
| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Joyner | General Stacks | QA9 .M295 2010 | ✔ Available | Place Hold |