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Labyrinth of Thought A History of Set Theory and Its Role in Modern Mathematics
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Labyrinth of Thought A History of Set Theory and Its Role in Modern Mathematics (Science Networks Historical Studies, Vol. 23) (Science Networks. Historical Studies) Hardcover - 1999

by Jose Ferreiros


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"JosA(c) FerreirA3s has written a magisterial account of the history of set theory which is panoramic, balanced, and engaging. Not only does this book synthesize much previous work and provide fresh insights and points of view, but it also features a major innovation, a full-fledged treatment of the emergence of the set-theoretic approach in mathematics from the early nineteenth century. This takes up Part One of the book. Part Two analyzes the crucial developments in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, above all the work of Cantor, but also Dedekind and the interaction between the two. Lastly, Part Three details the development of set theory up to 1950, taking account of foundational questions and the emergence of the modern axiomatization." (Bulletin of Symbolic Logic)

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It is a common characteristic of the various attempts to integrate the totality of mathematics into a coherent whole - whether we think of Plato, of Descartes, or of Leibniz, of arithmetization, or of the logicists of the nineteenth-century - that they have all been made in connection with a philosophical system, more or less wide in scope; always starting from a priori views concerning the relations of mathematics with the twofold universe of the external world and the world of thought.1

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  • Title Labyrinth of Thought A History of Set Theory and Its Role in Modern Mathematics (Science Networks Historical Studies, Vol. 23) (Science Networks. Historical Studies)
  • Author Jose Ferreiros
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Publisher Birkhäuser Basel
  • Date November 23, 1999
  • ISBN 9783764357498
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