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Book Information:
Author:
Dirk van Dalen
Title:
Mystic, geometer, and intuitionist. The life of L. E. J. Brouwer. Volume 1: The dawning revolution
Additional book information:
Clarendon Press, Oxford,
1999,
xv+ 420 pp.,
ISBN 0-19-850297-4,
£ 75.00
[1] Brouwer, L.E.J. 1913. Self-notice of papers 1910A1 and 1910D1 on continuous vector distributions, Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik, 41 (1910), 704-705.
[2] Barrau, J.A. 1910. Review of Brouwer 1907A2, Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik, 38 (1907), 81-84.
[3] Hardwick, C.S. 1977. (Ed. with J. Cook), Semiotics and significs. The correspondence between Charles S. Peirce and Victoria Lady Welby, Bloomington (Indiana University Press).
Dale M. Johnson, The problem of the invariance of dimension in the growth of modern topology. II, Arch. Hist. Exact Sci. 25 (1981), no. 2-3, 85–267. MR 641730, DOI 10.1007/BF02116242
Gregory H. Moore, Zermelo’s axiom of choice, Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, vol. 8, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1982. Its origins, development, and influence. MR 679315, DOI 10.1007/978-1-4613-9478-5
D. van Dalen, The war of the frogs and the mice, or the crisis of the Mathematische Annalen, Math. Intelligencer 12 (1990), no. 4, 17–31. MR 1076531, DOI 10.1007/BF03024028
Walter P. van Stigt, Brouwer’s intuitionism, Studies in the History and Philosophy of Mathematics, vol. 2, North-Holland Publishing Co., Amsterdam, 1990. MR 1075018
[8] Weyl, C.H.H. 1915. Review of Brouwer 1912D and 1912G, Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik, 43(1912), 527-528.
- [1]
- Brouwer, L.E.J. 1913. Self-notice of papers 1910A1 and 1910D1 on continuous vector distributions, Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik, 41 (1910), 704-705.
- [2]
- Barrau, J.A. 1910. Review of Brouwer 1907A2, Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik, 38 (1907), 81-84.
- [3]
- Hardwick, C.S. 1977. (Ed. with J. Cook), Semiotics and significs. The correspondence between Charles S. Peirce and Victoria Lady Welby, Bloomington (Indiana University Press).
- [4]
- Johnson, D. 1981. `The problem of the invariance of dimension in the growth of modern topology', Archive for history of exact sciences, 25, 85-267. MR 83e:01050
- [5]
- Moore, G.H. 1982. Zermelo's axiom of choice, New York (Springer). MR 85b:01036
- [6]
- van Dalen, D. 1990. `The war of the frogs and the mice, or the crisis of Mathematische Annalen', Mathematical intelligencer, 12, no. 4, 17-31. MR 91i:01147
- [7]
- van Stigt, W.P. 1990. Brouwer's intuitionism, Amsterdam (North-Holland). MR 92d:01054
- [8]
- Weyl, C.H.H. 1915. Review of Brouwer 1912D and 1912G, Jahrbuch über die Fortschritte der Mathematik, 43(1912), 527-528.
Review Information:
Reviewer:
I. Grattan-Guinness
Affiliation:
Middlesex University at Enfield
Email:
ivor2@mdx.ac.uk
Journal:
Bull. Amer. Math. Soc.
36 (1999), 529-532
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1090/S0273-0979-99-00794-6
Published electronically:
July 19, 1999
Review copyright:
© Copyright 1999
American Mathematical Society
