Overview
- Presents a history of an important field in mathematics and philosophy
- Focuses on specific topics as to which are not covered elsewhere
- Includes articles that are both mathematically technical and easily understood by non-mathematicians
Part of the book series: Modern Birkhäuser Classics (MBC)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This volume offers insights into the development of mathematical logic over the last century. Arising from a special session of the history of logic at an American Mathematical Society meeting, the chapters explore technical innovations, the philosophical consequences of work during the period, and the historical and social context in which the logicians worked.
The discussions herein will appeal to mathematical logicians and historians of mathematics, as well as philosophers and historians of science.
“…this is an important book. It exposes the richness of ideas and viewpoints, the difficult and not always direct pathways taken in the development of mathematical logic in the last century, and the various factors which did and continue to affect that development.”
Modern Logic
Reviews
Praise for the first edition:
"…the standard of the articles in Drucker’s book is high and the book can be recommended to anyone interested in the history and development of mathematical logic this century." – Newsletter of the New Zealand Mathematical Society
"…this is an important book. It exposes the richness of ideas and viewpoints, the difficult and not always direct pathways taken in the development of mathematical logic in the last century, and the various factors which did and continue to affect that development." —Modern Logic
"Logicians with a side-interest in the development of their field will enjoy it, and will not find it taxing in either mathematical or historical detail. The human as well as the scientific side of the growth of important ideas and institutions are treated at an expansive level." —Journal of Symbolic Logic
Editors and Affiliations
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Perspectives on the History of Mathematical Logic
Editors: Thomas Drucker
Series Title: Modern Birkhäuser Classics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-8176-4769-8
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston, MA
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eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: Birkhäuser Boston 1991
Softcover ISBN: 978-0-8176-4768-1Published: 04 January 2008
eBook ISBN: 978-0-8176-4769-8Published: 21 May 2009
Series ISSN: 2197-1803
Series E-ISSN: 2197-1811
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 195
Additional Information: Originally published as a monograph
Topics: History of Mathematical Sciences, Mathematical Logic and Foundations, Logic, History of Science, Mathematics, general