Overview
- Offers an alternative view and understanding of the history of philosophy and the history of symbolic logic
- Delivers a picture of European intellectual culture at the turn to the twentieth century
- Contains transcriptions of three recently rediscoverd manuscripts
Part of the book series: Publications des Archives Henri Poincaré Publications of the Henri Poincaré Archives (PAHP)
Part of the book sub series: Science autour de / around 1900 (PAHPSCIENCE)
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About this book
This volume features a critical edition of the recently rediscovered manuscripts written by the French philosopher Louis Couturat (1868-1914).
It includes the transcriptions of three of his believed to be lost manuscripts: first the “Cours de Caen: 1898-99” on various systems of symbolic logic, second his lecture at the Collège de France “Histoire de la logique formelle moderne", and third his textbook on mathematical logic. The manuscripts document the early reception of mathematical logic in France and provide insights into the first introduction of the French reader to the work of Gottlob Frege and Bertrand Russell.
It is the aim of the editors of this volume to contribute to the history of symbolic logic, particularly the history of its dissemination and its teaching in France. At the same time, the volume contributes to an alternative history and conception of philosophy in which semiotics and concrete mathematical practice stand in focus.
The bookis interesting for students and researchers in the history of philosophy, mathematics, and logic.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Louis Couturat: The History of Modern Symbolic Logic and Other French Manuscripts
Editors: Oliver Schlaudt, Anne-Francoise Schmid
Series Title: Publications des Archives Henri Poincaré Publications of the Henri Poincaré Archives
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-84828-6
Publisher: Birkhäuser Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-84827-9Published: 17 September 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-84828-6Published: 16 September 2021
Series ISSN: 2504-3714
Series E-ISSN: 2504-3722
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XX, 394
Number of Illustrations: 2 b/w illustrations, 2 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of Mathematical Sciences, Mathematical Logic and Foundations, Philosophy of Mathematics, History of Science