J. Ferreiros
Author of Labyrinth of Thought: A History of Set Theory and Its Role in Modern Mathematics
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Aristotle's Syllogism and the Creation of Modern Logic: Between Tradition and Innovation 1820-1930 (Bloomsbury Studies… (2023) — Contributor — 2 copies
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- Ferreiros Dominguez, Jose
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- 1964-11-30
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It was very interesting to trace the philosophical shift from concept-extension to predicativity, and to see the lexical progression from manifold (mannigfaltigkeit) to system to set (menge). This makes me want to go back and read other things with fresh eyes, such as Lakoff and Nunez's Where Mathematics Comes From and Devlin's Math-as-Gossip thesis.
Highly recommended.
Read before this book: some knowledge of set theory to be able to follow along.
Read after this book: Constructibility?… (more)