Abstraction and Infinity
Author: Paolo Mancosu
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2016
Total Pages: 231
ISBN-13: 0198746822
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMancosu offers an original investigation of key notions in mathematics: abstraction and infinity, and their interaction. He gives a historical analysis of the theorizing of definitions by abstraction, and explores a novel approach to measuring the size of infinite sets, showing how this leads to deep mathematical and philosophical problems.