Sets and Extensions in the Twentieth Century |
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| Editor:
| Gabbay, Dov M.
Kanamori, Akihiro
Woods, John |
| Series title: | Handbook of the History of Logic Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-1-280-58196-0 |
| Publication Date: | Jan 2012 |
| Publisher: | Elsevier Science & Technology Books
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| Imprint: | North Holland |
| Book Format: | Ebook |
| List Price: | USD $324.00 |
Book Description:
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Set theory is an autonomous and sophisticated field of mathematics that is extremely successful at analyzing mathematical propositions and gauging their consistency strength. It is as a field of mathematics that both proceeds with its own internal questions and is capable of contextualizing over a broad range, which makes set theory an intriguing and highly distinctive subject. This handbook covers the rich history of scientific turning points in set theory, providing fresh insights...
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Set theory is an autonomous and sophisticated field of mathematics that is extremely successful at analyzing mathematical propositions and gauging their consistency strength. It is as a field of mathematics that both proceeds with its own internal questions and is capable of contextualizing over a broad range, which makes set theory an intriguing and highly distinctive subject. This handbook covers the rich history of scientific turning points in set theory, providing fresh insights and points of view. Written by leading researchers in the field, both this volume and the Handbook as a whole are definitive reference tools for senior undergraduates, graduate students and researchers in mathematics, the history of philosophy, and any discipline such as computer science, cognitive psychology, and artificial intelligence, for whom the historical background of his or her work is a salient consideration
Serves as a singular contribution to the intellectual history of the 20th centuryContains the latest scholarly discoveries and interpretative insights