Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Auteur de The Rainbow of Mathematics: A History of the Mathematical Sciences
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Œuvres de Ivor Grattan-Guinness
Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences, volume 2 (1994) 33 exemplaires
Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences (1994) 33 exemplaires
The Search for Mathematical Roots, 1870-1940: Logics, Set Theories and the Foundations of Mathematics from Cantor… (2000) 32 exemplaires
Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences (1993) 17 exemplaires
Dear Russell, Dear Jourdain: A Commentary on Russell's Logic, Based on His Correspondence With Philip Jourdain (1977) 8 exemplaires
Routes of Learning: Highways, Pathways, and Byways in the History of Mathematics (2009) 6 exemplaires
Psychical research: A guide to its history, principles, and practices : in celebration of 100 years of the Society for… (1982) 6 exemplaires
Convolutions in French mathematics, 1800-1840 : from the calculus and mechanics to mathematical analysis… (1990) 1 exemplaire
Cahiers D'Histoire & de Philosophie des Sciences 1 exemplaire
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Partage des connaissances
- Date de naissance
- 1941-06-23
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- England
UK
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 20
- Membres
- 339
- Popularité
- #70,285
- Évaluation
- 4.1
- Critiques
- 3
- ISBN
- 46
- Langues
- 1
I hoped that reading this book would give me a better understanding, in an historical context, of the issues involved in the controversies about the foundations of mathematics a century ago. I found this book fairly interesting, and it was a quick read, but it seems to be written for those who already have an essentially complete understanding of those issues, since the ideas themselves were addressed only tangentially. The focus of the book is much more on: who published what paper when, to what journal did he send it, who was the editor of the journal, who refereed the paper, to whom were offprints sent, in what archives can the manuscript be found, who read whose paper when, who met whom at what conference, who used what notation in writing which paper. This is very much a documentary history, and historians of mathematics will probably love it, but I am probably not the only mathematician who will not find this book completely satisfying.… (plus d'informations)