From Dedekind to Gödel: Essays on the Development of the Foundations of Mathematics (Synthese Library, 251) by Jaakko Hintikka (PDF)

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Discussions of the foundations of mathematics and their history are frequently restricted to logical issues in a narrow sense, or else to traditional problems of analytic philosophy. From Dedekind to Gödel: Essays on the Development of the Foundations of Mathematics illustrates the much greater variety of the actual developments in the foundations during the period covered. The viewpoints that serve this purpose included the foundational ideas of working mathematicians, such as Kronecker, Dedekind, Borel and the early Hilbert, and the development of notions like model and modelling, arbitrary function, completeness, and non-Archimedean structures. The philosophers discussed include not only the household names in logic, but also Husserl, Wittgenstein and Ramsey. Needless to say, such logically-oriented thinkers as Frege, Russell and Gödel are not entirely neglected, either. Audience: Everybody interested in the philosophy and/or history of mathematics will find this book interesting, giving frequently novel insights.

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Opiniones editoriales About the Author Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese and the Managing Editor of Synthese Library since 1965.

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⭐This is not a review of the contents, instead it’s a review of the poor job with page alignment, really an amateur job. Each page in the book is poorly centered, so poorly that there is a 2 inch blank space at the top of each page. There is no margin at the bottom of the page. As a result the body of text is frequently cut off at the bottom of the page.In addition, the publisher listed on Amazon is Springer. That’s incorrect, the publisher is Kluwer and they should be ashamed of themselves. Springer would never have let this book see the light of day.Finally, the price is simply outrageous. I was lucky and found it for much less. Even so it wasn’t really worth it.I just received the book so haven’t had time to evaluate the contents. But had I known how bad the publishing was done, I would NOT have bought the book.It’s probably worth ten bucks.

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