A Concise History of Mathematics for Philosophers - John Stillwell - Paperback Bog - Cambridge University Press - 2019 - Engelsk - Booktok.dk
Brand: Cambridge University Press
Description
Presents an outline of mathematics and its history, with particular emphasis on events that shook up its philosophy. Ranges from ancient Greece to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century discoveries on the nature of infinity and proof. Recurring themes are intuition and logic, meaning and existence, and the discrete and the continuous.
