A Concise History of Mathematics for Philosophers

Presents an outline of mathematics and its history, with particular emphasis on events that shook up its philosophy. Ranges from ancient Greece to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century discoveries on the nature of infinity and proof. Recurring themes are intuition and logic, meaning and existence, and the discrete and the continuous.

• | : John Stillwell (University of San Francisco)
• | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• | Publication Date: Jun 06, 2019
• | Country of Publication: United Kingdom
• | Number of Pages: 75 pages
• | Language: Unknown
• | Binding: Paperback / softback
• | ISBN-10: 1108456235
• | ISBN-13: 9781108456234