Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics (2008)
Gray, Jeremy (Author)
Princeton University Press
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.
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).
Review Fenster, Della D. (2009) Review of "Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics". Historia Mathematica (p. 444).
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).
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