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Presents an outline of mathematics and its history, with particular emphasis on events that shook up its philosophy. Ranges from ancient Greece to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century discoveries on the nature of infinity and proof. Recurring themes are intuition and logic, meaning and existence, and the discrete and the continuous.

A Concise History of Mathematics for Philosophers

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: 6/6/2019 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781108456234, 978-1108456234
      ISBN10: 1108456235
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      Presents an outline of mathematics and its history, with particular emphasis on events that shook up its philosophy. Ranges from ancient Greece to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century discoveries on the nature of infinity and proof. Recurring themes are intuition and logic, meaning and existence, and the discrete and the continuous.

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