The search for mathematical roots, 1870-1940 logics, set theories and the foundations of mathematics from Cantor through Russell to G(uml)odel - Grattan-Guinness, I.; Safari eBooks (Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2000)
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Keywords: Arithmetic -- Foundations; Set theory -- History -- 19th century; Set theory -- History -- 20th century; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical -- History -- 19th century; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical -- History -- 20th century; Electronic books