Overview
- Contains an introduction and English translation on very important notes on logic from a significant mathematician
- Presented in three parts for optimal accessibility
- Contains a detailed table of contents to guide readers to the works of greatest interest to them
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences (SHMP)
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Reviews
“This book is obviously indispensable to historians of logic in the immediate wake of Gödel’s 1931 incompleteness theorems. … Saved from the Cellar is also valuable for less specialist readers (like myself ) who wish to understand the broader outlines of what proof theory has meant to several of its leading creators.” (Colin McLarty, Isis, Vol. 111 (1), 2020)
“The book contains translations of shorthand notes which survived in the Nachlass of the mathematical logician Gerhard Gentzen. ... The book is valuable source for the history of modern logic; the editor did an excellent work in getting the shorthand notes, first transcribed in normal German text, and then translating it to English.” (Reinhard Kahle, zbMath 1414.03002, 2019)
“Every general reader interested in modern logic and its history, … may find a source of inspiration in Genzen’s unpublished notes of the thirties, as well as for the philosopher concerned with epistemological aspects of modern logic.” (Adrian Rezus, Studia Logica, Vol. 107, 2019)
“This is an account and transcription of two slim folders of stenographic material in Gerhard Gentzen's handwriting that were found in 1984. … this book is a valuable contribution to the history of the development of mathematical logic in the first half of the twentieth century.” (Henry Africk, Mathematical Reviews, December, 2017)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Saved from the Cellar
Book Subtitle: Gerhard Gentzen’s Shorthand Notes on Logic and Foundations of Mathematics
Authors: Jan von Plato
Series Title: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42120-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-42119-3Published: 07 April 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82502-1Published: 17 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-42120-9Published: 31 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2196-8810
Series E-ISSN: 2196-8829
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 315
Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations
Topics: History of Mathematical Sciences, Mathematical Logic and Foundations