Description
Product ID: | 9781108456234 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Series: | Elements in the Philosophy of Mathematics |
Title: | A Concise History of Mathematics for Philosophers |
Authors: | Author: John Stillwell |
Page Count: | 75 |
Subjects: | Philosophy of mathematics, Philosophy of mathematics, History of mathematics, History of mathematics |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
Imprint Name: | Cambridge University Press |
Publisher Name: | Cambridge University Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2019-06-06 |