Mathematics, the loss of certainty / Morris Kline.

By:

Kline, Morris, 1908-1992

Publication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1980.Description: 366 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

019502754X :

Subject(s):

Mathematics -- History

LOC classification:

QA21.K52 1980

Contents:

Table of contents

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
BOOK	Strathmore University (Main Library) Open Shelf	BOOK	QA21.K52 1980	Available	SUF Donation 3		77720

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Bibliography: p. 355-359.

Table of contents

I The Genesis of Mathematical Truths;
II The Flowering of Mathematical Truths;
III The Mathematization of Science;
IV The first Debacle:The withering of Truth;
V The illogical development of a logical subject;
VI The illogical development:The morass of Analysis;
VII The illogical development:The predicament circa;
VIII illogical development:At the Gates of Paradise;
IX Paradise Barred: A new crisis of Reason;
X Logicism versus Intuitionism;
XI The Formalist and Set theoretic Foundations;
XII Disasters;
XIII The isolation of Mathematics;
XIV Whither Mathematics;
XV The authority of nature.

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