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From Kant to Hilbert Volume 1 : A Source Book in the Foundations of Mathematics.
Title:
From Kant to Hilbert Volume 1 : A Source Book in the Foundations of Mathematics.
Author:
Ewald, William Bragg.
ISBN:
9780191523090
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1 online resource (695 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- Copyright Permissions -- Introduction -- 1. GEORGE BERKELEY (1685-1753) -- A. From the Philosophical commentaries -- B. Of infinites -- C. Letter to Samuel Molyneux -- D. From A treatise concerning the principles of human knowledge, Part One -- E. De Motu -- F. From Alciphron -- G. From Newton's Principia mathematica -- H. The analyst -- 2. COLIN MACLAURIN (1698-1746) -- A. From A treatise of fluxions -- 3. JEAN LEROND D'ALEMBERT (1717-1783) -- A. Differential -- B. Infinite -- C. Limit -- 4. IMMANUEL KANT (1724-1804) -- A. From Thoughts on the true estimation of active forces -- B. From the Transcendental aesthetic -- C. From the Discipline of pure reason -- D. Frege on Kant -- 5. JOHANN HEINRICH LAMBERT (1728-1777) -- A. From the Theory of parallel lines -- 6. BERNARD BOLZANO (1781-1848) -- A. Preface to Considerations on some objects of elementary geometry -- B. Contributions to a better-grounded presentation of mathematics -- C. Purely analytic proof of the theorem that between any two values which give results of opposite sign there lies at least one real root of the equation -- D. From Paradoxes of the infinite -- 7. CARL FRIEDRICH GAUSS (1777-1855) -- A. On the metaphysics of mathematics -- B. Gauss on non-Euclidean geometry -- C. Notice on the theory of biquadratic residues -- 8. DUNCAN GREGORY (1813-1844) -- A. On the real nature of symbolical algebra -- 9. AUGUSTUS DE MORGAN (1806-1871) -- A. On the foundation of algebra -- B. Trigonometry and double algebra -- 10. WILLIAM ROWAN HAMILTON (1805-1865) -- A. From the Theory of conjugate functions, or algebraic couples -- with a preliminary and elementary essay on algebra as the science of pure time -- B. Preface to the Lectures on quaternions -- C. From the Correspondence of Hamilton with De Morgan -- 11. GEORGE BOOLE (1815-1864).

A. The mathematical analysis of logic, being an essay towards a calculus of deductive reasoning -- 12. JAMES JOSEPH SYLVESTER (1814-1897) -- A. Presidential address to Section 'A' of the British Association -- 13. WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD (1845-1879) -- A. On the space theory of matter -- B. On the aims and instruments of scientific thought -- 14. ARTHUR CAYLEY (1821-1895) -- A. Presidential address to the British Association, September 1883 -- 15. CHARLES SANDERS PEIRCE (1839-1914) -- A. From Linear associative algebra -- B. Notes on Benjamin Peirce's linear associative algebra -- C. On the logic of number -- D. On the algebra of logic: a contribution to the philosophy of notation -- E. The logic of mathematics in relation to education -- F. From The simplest mathematics -- References -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- V -- W -- Z.
Abstract:
This two-volume work brings together a comprehensive selection of mathematical works from the period 1707-1930. During this time the foundations of modern mathematics were laid, and From Kant to Hilbert provides an overview of the foundational work in each of the main branches of mathmeatics with narratives showing how they were linked. Now available as a separate volume.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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