155202

Springer, Dordrecht

1995

472 Pages

ISBN 978-90-481-4554-6

From Dedekind to Gödel

essays on the development of the foundations of mathematics

Edited by

Jaakko Hintikka

Discussions of the foundations of mathematics and their history are frequently restricted to logical issues in a narrow sense, or else to traditional problems of analytic philosophy. From Dedekind to Gödel: Essays on the Development of the Foundations of Mathematics illustrates the much greater variety of the actual developments in the foundations during the period covered. The viewpoints that serve this purpose included the foundational ideas of working mathematicians, such as Kronecker, Dedekind, Borel and the early Hilbert, and thedevelopment of notions like model and modelling, arbitrary function, completeness, and non-Archimedean structures. The philosophers discussed include not only the household names in logic, but also Husserl, Wittgenstein and Ramsey. Needless to say, such logically-oriented thinkers as Frege, Russell and Gödel are not entirely neglected, either.

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DOI: 10.1007/978-94-015-8478-4

Full citation:

Hintikka, J. (ed) (1995). From Dedekind to Gödel: essays on the development of the foundations of mathematics, Springer, Dordrecht.

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