Philosophy of mathematics books

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Charles Chihara gives a critical exposition of modal realism, the philosophical doctrine that there exist many possible...  Read More >>

Change, Choice and Inference unifies lively and significant strands of research in logic, philosophy, economics...  Read More >>

This text traces the roots of Postmodern theory to a debate on the foundations of mathematics early in the 20th...  Read More >>

Lie groups and algebraic groups are important in many major areas of mathematics and mathematical physics. We find...  Read More >>

A unique and utterly charming guide to the history of mathematics.  Read More >>

Jeffrey Barrett presents the most comprehensive study yet of a problem that has puzzled physicists and philosophers...  Read More >>

Renowned linguist George Lakoff pairs with psychologist Rafael Nunez in the first book to provide a serious study...  Read More >>

In this book, Balaguer demonstrates that there are no good arguments for or against mathematical platonism. He does...  Read More >>

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According to Platonists, entities such as numbers, sets, propositions and properties are abstract objects. This...  Read More >>

The initial volume of Godel's works, this book makes available in a single source all his publications from 1929...  Read More >>

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A reconstruction of the philosophical thought of Henri Poincare, the mathematician who founded the field of topology...  Read More >>

In this revised and extended edition this book reaches out to contemporary work in these broader fields, adding...  Read More >>

A deep and instructive account of the algorithm's development and its role in modern life.This book combines history,...  Read More >>

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Hartry Field presents a selection of thirteen of his most important essays on a set of related topics at the foundations...  Read More >>

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"Henri Poincare here deals with a variety of issues of methodology, including the selection of facts for study....  Read More >>

This text explores the reasons why diagrams have been ignored in modern formal theories of axiomatic systems. By...  Read More >>

Cet ouvrage traite des théorèmes fondamentaux de l'analyse (convergence, continuité, calcul différentiel et intégral...  Read More >>

An historical study of the infinite, covering all its aspects, from the mathematical to the mystical. Moore discusses...  Read More >>

"""Casti is one of the great science writers. "" -San Francisco Examiner ""Casti's gift is to be able to let the...  Read More >>

This work presents mathematics as both science and art, focusing on the historical role of mathematics in our culture....  Read More >>