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Book Information:
Author:
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 pp.,
ISBN 0-691-05857-1,
$24.95$
1. W. Ewald, From Kant to Hilbert: A source book in the foundations of mathematics. Oxford University Press, 1996. MR 1465678
2. Ferreirós, J., Labyrinth of thought: A history of set theory and its role in modern mathematics. Birkhäuser Verlag, 1999. MR 1726552
3. Hallett, M., Cantorian set theory and limitation of size. Oxford University Press, 1984. MR 0765076
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 1685779
6. Moore, G., Zermelo's axiom of choice: its origins, development, and influence. Springer Verlag, 1982. MR 0679315
7. Sieg, W., Hilbert's programs: 1917-1922. Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 5 (1999), 1-44. MR 1681894
- 1.
- W. Ewald, From Kant to Hilbert: A source book in the foundations of mathematics. Oxford University Press, 1996. MR 1465678
- 2.
- Ferreirós, J., Labyrinth of thought: A history of set theory and its role in modern mathematics. Birkhäuser Verlag, 1999. MR 1726552
- 3.
- Hallett, M., Cantorian set theory and limitation of size. Oxford University Press, 1984. MR 0765076
- 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 1685779
- 6.
- Moore, G., Zermelo's axiom of choice: its origins, development, and influence. Springer Verlag, 1982. MR 0679315
- 7.
- Sieg, W., Hilbert's programs: 1917-1922. Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 5 (1999), 1-44. MR 1681894
Review Information:
Reviewer:
William Ewald
Affiliation:
University of Pennsylvania Law School
Email:
wewald@law.upenn.edu
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
40 (2003), 125-129
Published electronically:
October 16, 2002
Review copyright:
© Copyright 2002
American Mathematical Society
