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Lighthouse Rainbows utilizes a range of creative styles so that
readers will feel like they are part of a particular poem. The book
covers the trials and tribulations of life, the sweetness of
nature, and our love for lyrics that can be put to enjoyable
musical melodies.
This book is based on two premises: one cannot understand
philosophy of mathematics without understanding mathematics and one
cannot understand mathematics withoutdoing mathematics. It draws
readers into philosophy of mathematics by having them do
mathematics. It offers 298 exercises, covering philosophically
important material, presented in a philosophically informed way.
The exercises give readers opportunities to recreate some
mathematics that will illuminate important readings in philosophy
ofmathematics. Topics include primitive recursive arithmetic, Peano
arithmetic, Godel's theorems, interpretability, the hierarchyof
sets, Frege arithmetic and intuitionist sentential logic. The book
is intended for readers who understand basic properties of the
natural and realnumbers and have some background in formal
logic."
This volume offers English translations of three early works by
Ernst Schroeder (1841-1902), a mathematician and logician whose
philosophical ruminations and pathbreaking contributions to
algebraic logic attracted the admiration and ire of figures such as
Dedekind, Frege, Husserl, and C. S. Peirce. Today he still engages
the sympathetic interest of logicians and philosophers. The works
translated record Schroeder's journey out of algebra into algebraic
logic and document his transformation of George Boole's opaque and
unwieldy logical calculus into what we now recognize as Boolean
algebra. Readers interested in algebraic logic and abstract algebra
can look forward to a tour of the early history of those fields
with a guide who was exceptionally thorough, unfailingly honest,
and deeply reflective.
Moritz Pasch (1843-1930) is justly celebrated as a key figure in
the history of axiomatic geometry. Less well known are his
contributions to other areas of foundational research. This volume
features English translations of 14 papers Pasch published in the
decade 1917-1926. In them, Pasch argues that geometry and, more
surprisingly, number theory are branches of empirical science; he
provides axioms for the combinatorial reasoning essential to
Hilbert's program of consistency proofs; he explores "implicit
definition" (a generalization of definition by abstraction) and
indicates how this technique yields an "empiricist" reconstruction
of set theory; he argues that we cannot fully understand the
logical structure of mathematics without clearly distinguishing
between decidable and undecidable properties; he offers a rare
glimpse into the mind of a master of axiomatics, surveying in
detail the thought experiments he employed as he struggled to
identify fundamental mathematical principles; and much more. This
volume will: Give English speakers access to an important body of
work from a turbulent and pivotal period in the history of
mathematics, help us look beyond the familiar triad of formalism,
intuitionism, and logicism, show how deeply we can see with the
help of a guide determined to present fundamental mathematical
ideas in ways that match our human capacities, will be of interest
to graduate students and researchers in logic and the foundations
of mathematics.
This book is based on two premises: one cannot understand
philosophy of mathematics without understanding mathematics and one
cannot understand mathematics without doing mathematics. It
draws readers into philosophy of mathematics by having them do
mathematics. It offers 298 exercises, covering philosophically
important material, presented in a philosophically informed way.
The exercises give readers opportunities to recreate some
mathematics that will illuminate important readings in philosophy
of mathematics. Topics include primitive recursive
arithmetic, Peano arithmetic, Gödel's theorems, interpretability,
the hierarchy of sets, Frege arithmetic and intuitionist
sentential logic. The book is intended for readers who understand
basic properties of the natural and real numbers and have
some background in formal logic.
Moritz Pasch (1843-1930) is justly celebrated as a key figure in
the history of axiomatic geometry. Less well known are his
contributions to other areas of foundational research. This volume
features English translations of 14 papers Pasch published in the
decade 1917-1926. In them, Pasch argues that geometry and, more
surprisingly, number theory are branches of empirical science; he
provides axioms for the combinatorial reasoning essential to
Hilbert's program of consistency proofs; he explores "implicit
definition" (a generalization of definition by abstraction) and
indicates how this technique yields an "empiricist" reconstruction
of set theory; he argues that we cannot fully understand the
logical structure of mathematics without clearly distinguishing
between decidable and undecidable properties; he offers a rare
glimpse into the mind of a master of axiomatics, surveying in
detail the thought experiments he employed as he struggled to
identify fundamental mathematical principles; and much more. This
volume will: Give English speakers access to an important body of
work from a turbulent and pivotal period in the history of
mathematics, help us look beyond the familiar triad of formalism,
intuitionism, and logicism, show how deeply we can see with the
help of a guide determined to present fundamental mathematical
ideas in ways that match our human capacities, will be of interest
to graduate students and researchers in logic and the foundations
of mathematics.
This volume offers English translations of three early works by
Ernst Schröder (1841-1902), a mathematician and logician whose
philosophical ruminations and pathbreaking contributions to
algebraic logic attracted the admiration and ire of figures such as
Dedekind, Frege, Husserl, and C. S. Peirce. Today he still engages
the sympathetic interest of logicians and philosophers. The
works translated record Schröder’s journey out of algebra into
algebraic logic and document his transformation of George Boole’s
opaque and unwieldy logical calculus into what we now recognize as
Boolean algebra. Readers interested in algebraic logic and abstract
algebra can look forward to a tour of the early history of those
fields with a guide who was exceptionally thorough, unfailingly
honest, and deeply reflective.
Lighthouse Rainbows utilizes a range of creative styles so that
readers will feel like they are part of a particular poem. The book
covers the trials and tribulations of life, the sweetness of
nature, and our love for lyrics that can be put to enjoyable
musical melodies.
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