Hintikka, Jaakko (Editor)
Kluwer
Physical Details: ix + 459 pp.; notes; index
Description Contents: Webb, Judson: Tracking contradictions in geometry: The idea of a model from Kant to Hilbert. Hintikka, Jaakko: Standard vs. nonstandard distinction: A watershed in the foundations of mathematics. Edwards, Harold M.: Kronecker on the foundations of mathematics. McCarty, David Charles: The mysteries of Richard Dedekind. Hill, Claire Ortiz: Frege's letters. Heck, Richard G., Jr.: Frege's principle. Hill, Claire Ortiz: Husserl and Hilbert on completeness. Ehrlich, Philip: Hahn's Über die nichtarchimedischen Grössensysteme and the development of the modern theory of magnitudes and numbers to measure them. Moore, Gregory H.: The origins of Russell's paradox: Russell, Couturat, and the antimony of infinite number. Kanamori, Akihiro: The emergence of descriptive set theory. Plato, Jan von: Chance against constructibility. Boos, William: Thoralf Skolem, Hermann Weyl and “Das Gefühl der Welt als begrenztes Ganzes”. Woleński, Jan: On Tarski's background. Marion, Mathieu: Wittgenstein and Ramsey on identity. Floyd, Juliet: On saying what you really want to say: Wittgenstein, Gödel, and the trisection of the angle. Dagfinn FØllesdal: Gödel and Husserl.
Review Grattan-Guinness, I. (1996) Review of "From Dedekind to Gödel: Essays on the development of the foundations of mathematics". History and Philosophy of Logic (pp. 104-5).
Review Belna, J.-P. (1999) Review of "From Dedekind to Gödel: Essays on the development of the foundations of mathematics". Revue d'Histoire des Sciences (pp. 164-65).
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