Book ID: CBB000950298

Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics (2008)

unapi

Gray, Jeremy (Author)


Princeton University Press


Publication Date: 2008
Physical Details: viii + 515 pp.; ill.; bibl.; index
Language: English

Description On the period from 1880 to 1920, focusing on individuals such as Richard Dedekind, Henri Lebesgue, and Jules Henri Poincaré.


Reviewed By

Review Drucker, Thomas (2011) Review of "Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 185). unapi

Review Fenster, Della D. (2009) Review of "Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics". Historia Mathematica (p. 444). unapi

Review Schappacher, Norbert (2012) Review of "Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics". NTM: Zeitschrift für Geschichte der Naturwissenschaften, Technik und Medizin (pp. 233-238). unapi

Citation URI
https://data.isiscb.org/isis/citation/CBB000950298/

Similar Citations

Article Moore, Gregory H.; (2008)
The Emergence of Open Sets, Closed Sets, and Limit Points in Analysis and Topology (/isis/citation/CBB000950203/)

Article Enrico Rogora; (2021)
A Priority Claim of Henri Lebesgue against Leonida Tonelli (/isis/citation/CBB674062575/)

Article Emmylou Haffner; (2019)
From Modules to Lattices: Insight into the Genesis of Dedekind's Dualgruppen (/isis/citation/CBB728342102/)

Article Błaszczyk, Piotr; Katz, Mikhail G.; Sherry, David; (2013)
Ten Misconceptions from the History of Analysis and Their Debunking (/isis/citation/CBB001252715/)

Chapter Jeremy Gray; (2015)
Henri Poincaré and Hermann Weyl on the Foundations of Mathematics (/isis/citation/CBB501271170/)

Book Christian Gerini; Jean-Marc Ginoux; (2013)
Henri Poincaré: A Biography Through the Daily Papers (/isis/citation/CBB354216167/)

Book Ferdinand Verhulst; (2012)
Henri Poincaré: Impatient Genius (/isis/citation/CBB160508794/)

Article Moore, Gregory H.; (2007)
The Evolution of the Concept of Homeomorphism (/isis/citation/CBB000772446/)

Chapter Schneider, Ivo; (1999)
Stochastik von Laplace bis Poincaré (/isis/citation/CBB000450073/)

Book Charpentier, Éric; Ghys, Étienne; Lesne, Annick; (2010)
The Scientific Legacy of Poincaré (/isis/citation/CBB001023244/)

Article Lizhen Ji; Chang Wang; (2022)
Poincaré’s works leading to the Poincaré conjecture (/isis/citation/CBB001593509/)

Article Craig Fraser; Michiyo Nakane; (2023)
Canonical transformations from Jacobi to Whittaker (/isis/citation/CBB563006808/)

Article Muntersbjorn, Madeline; (2012)
On the Intellectual Heritage of Henri Poincaré (/isis/citation/CBB001210329/)

Article Lizhen Ji; Chang Wang; (2020)
Poincaré’s stated motivations for topology (/isis/citation/CBB272091949/)

Chapter Tom Archibald; (2015)
Saturn’s Rings from Laplace to Poincaré (/isis/citation/CBB776089038/)

Authors & Contributors
Wang, Chang
Moore, Gregory H.
Ji, Lizhen
Enrico Rogora
Christian Gerini
Mechthild Koreuber
Concepts
Mathematics
Topology
Physics
Biographies
Algebraic topology
Infinitesimals
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
20th century
18th century
Places
Germany
Europe
Comments

Be the first to comment!

{{ comment.created_by.username }} on {{ comment.created_on | date:'medium' }}

Log in or register to comment