Mathematics : the loss of certainty / Morris Kline.

Main entry:

Kline, Morris, 1908-1992, author.

Title & Author:

Mathematics : the loss of certainty / Morris Kline.

Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1980.

Description:

366 pages ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 355-359) and index.
The genesis of mathematical truths -- The flowering of mathematical truths -- The mathematization of science -- The first debacle : the withering of truth -- The illogical development of a logical subject -- The illogical development : the morass of analysis -- The illogical development : the predicament circa 1800 -- The illogical development : at the gates of paradise -- Paradise barred : a new crisis of reason -- Logicism versus intuitionism -- The formalist and set-theoretic foundations -- Disasters -- The isolation of mathematics -- Wither mathematics? -- The authority of nature.

Resources:
Table of contents

ISBN:

019502754X
9780195027549

Subject:

Mathematics History.
Mathématiques Histoire.
Mathematics
Geschichte
Mathematik
Wahrheit
Wiskunde.

Form/genre:

History

Holdings:

Location: Library main 31405
Call No.: 6182; ID:88-B3261
Status: Available

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