Title | From Dedekind to Gรถdel [electronic resource] : Essays on the Development of the Foundations of Mathematics / edited by Jaakko Hintikka |
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Imprint | Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1995 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-8478-4 |
Descript | X, 460 p. online resource |
Tracking Contradictions in Geometry: The Idea of a Model from Kant to Hilbert -- Standard vs. Nonstandard Distinction: A Watershed in the Foundations of Mathematics -- Kronecker on the Foundations of Mathematics -- The Mysteries of Richard Dedekind -- Fregeโs Letters -- Fregeโs Principle -- Husserl and Hilbert on Completeness -- Hahnโs รber die nichtarchimedischen Grรถssensysteme and the Development of the Modern Theory of Magnitudes and Numbers to Measure Them -- The Origins of Russellโs Paradox: Russell, Couturat, and the Antinomy of Infinite Number -- The Emergence of Descriptive Set Theory -- Chance Against Constructibility -- Thoralf Skolem, Hermann Weyl and โDas Gefรผhl der Welt als begrenztes Ganzesโ -- On Tarskiโs Background -- Wittgenstein and Ramsey on Identity -- On Saying What You Really Want to Say: Wittgenstein, Gรถdel, and the Trisection of the Angle -- Gรถdel and Husserl -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects and Titles