Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics
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Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics

by Ludwig Wittgenstein

Publisher
Blackwell Publishers
Pages
223
Language
English
Published
1974

Overview

This analyzes in depth such topics logical compulsion & mathematical conviction; calculation as experiment; mathematical surprise, discovery, & invention; Russell's logic, Godel's theorem, cantor's diagonal procedure, Dedekind's cuts; the nature of proof & contradiction; & the role of mathematical propositions in the forming of concepts.Translator's NoteEditors' PrefaceThe TextIndex

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