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Book Information
Author(s):
I. Grattan-Guinness
Title:
The search for mathematical roots, 1870-1940: Logics, set theories, and the foundations of mathematics from Cantor through Russell to Gödel
Additional book information:
Princeton University Press,
Princeton, NJ,
2000,
690,
$24.95,
0-691-05857-1
References:
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- 1.
- W. Ewald, From Kant to Hilbert: A source book in the foundations of mathematics. Oxford University Press, 1996. MR 98i:01040
- 2.
- Ferreirós, J., Labyrinth of thought: A history of set theory and its role in modern mathematics. Birkhäuser Verlag, 1999. MR 2000m:03005
- 3.
- Hallett, M., Cantorian set theory and limitation of size. Oxford University Press, 1984. MR 86e:03003
- 4.
- Hilbert, D. and Ackermann, W., Grundzüge der theoretischen Logik. Springer Verlag, 1928.
- 5.
- Mancosu, P., From Brouwer to Hilbert: The debate on the foundations of mathematics in the 1920s. Oxford University Press, 1998. MR 2000j:01122
- 6.
- Moore, G., Zermelo's axiom of choice: its origins, development, and influence. Springer Verlag, 1982. MR 85b:01036
- 7.
- Sieg, W., Hilbert's programs: 1917-1922. Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 5 (1999), 1-44. MR 2000d:01016
Additional Information:
Reviewer(s):
William
Ewald
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Email:
wewald@law.upenn.edu
Review Information:
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
40
(2003),
125-129.
MSC
(2000):
Primary 01A55, 01A60, 03-03
DOI:
10.1090/S0273-0979-02-00959-X
PII:
S 0273-0979(02)00959-X
Posted:
October 16, 2002
Copyright of article:
Copyright
2002,
American Mathematical Society
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