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The Evolution of Principia Mathematica - Bertrand Russell's Manuscripts and Notes for the Second Edition (Hardcover, New)
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The Evolution of Principia Mathematica - Bertrand Russell's Manuscripts and Notes for the Second Edition (Hardcover, New)
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Originally published in 1910, Principia Mathematica led to the
development of mathematical logic and computers and thus to
information sciences. It became a model for modern analytic
philosophy and remains an important work. In the late 1960s the
Bertrand Russell Archives at McMaster University in Canada obtained
Russell's papers, letters and library. These archives contained the
manuscripts for the new Introduction and three Appendices that
Russell added to the second edition in 1925. Also included was
another manuscript, 'The Hierarchy of Propositions and Functions',
which was divided up and re-used to create the final changes for
the second edition. These documents provide fascinating insight,
including Russell's attempts to work out the theorems in the flawed
Appendix B, 'On Induction'. An extensive introduction describes the
stages of the manuscript material on the way to print and analyzes
the proposed changes in the context of the development of symbolic
logic after 1910.
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