The search for mathematical roots, 1870-1940 [electronic resource] : logics, set theories and the foundations of mathematics from Cantor through Russell to G(uml)odel / I. Grattan-Guinness.
c2000Description: 1 online resource (1 v.) : illISBN:- 9781400824045
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Explanations -- Preludes : algebraic logic and mathematical analysis up to 1870 -- Cantor : mathematics as Mengenlehre -- Parallel processes in set theory, logics and axiomatics, 1870s-1900s -- Peano : the formulary of mathematics -- Russell's way in : from certainty to paradoxes, 1895-1903 -- Russell and Whitehead seek the Principia Mathematica, 1903-1913 -- The influence and place of logicism, 1910-1930 -- Postludes : mathematical logic and logicism in the 1930s -- The fate of the search -- Transcription of manuscripts.