Frege, Dedekind, and Peano on the Foundations of Arithmetic (Routledge Revivals)
Frege, Dedekind, and Peano on the Foundations of Arithmetic (Routledge Revivals)

Author: Donald Gillies

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 115

ISBN-13: 113672107X

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First published in 1982, this reissue contains a critical exposition of the views of Frege, Dedekind and Peano on the foundations of arithmetic. The last quarter of the 19th century witnessed a remarkable growth of interest in the foundations of arithmetic. This work analyses both the reasons for this growth of interest within both mathematics and philosophy and the ways in which this study of the foundations of arithmetic led to new insights in philosophy and striking advances in logic. This historical-critical study provides an excellent introduction to the problems of the philosophy of mathematics - problems which have wide implications for philosophy as a whole. This reissue will appeal to students of both mathematics and philosophy who wish to improve their knowledge of logic.

Frege, Dedekind, and Peano on the Foundations of Arithmetic
Frege, Dedekind, and Peano on the Foundations of Arithmetic

Author: Donald Gillies

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 103

ISBN-13: 9780203816288

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First published in 1982, this reissue contains a critical exposition of the views of Frege, Dedekind and Peano on the foundations of arithmetic. The last quarter of the 19th century witnessed a remarkable growth of interest in the foundations of arithmetic. This work analyses both the reasons for this growth of interest within both mathematics and philosophy and the ways in which this study of the foundations of arithmetic led to new insights in philosophy and striking advances in logic. This historical-critical study provides an excellent introduction to the problems of the philosophy of mathematics - problems which have wide implications for philosophy as a whole. This reissue will appeal to students of both mathematics and philosophy who wish to improve their knowledge of logic.

Necessary Beings
Necessary Beings

Author: Bob Hale

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2013-09-19

Total Pages: 309

ISBN-13: 0199669570

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Bob Hale presents a broadly Fregean approach to metaphysics, according to which ontology and modality are mutually dependent upon one another. He argues that facts about what kinds of things exist depend on facts about what is possible. Modal facts are fundamental, and have their basis in the essences of things—not in meanings or concepts.

Gottlob Frege: Foundations of Arithmetic
Gottlob Frege: Foundations of Arithmetic

Author: Gottlob Frege

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2020-07-24

Total Pages: 129

ISBN-13: 1000154424

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Part of theLongman Library of Primary Sources in Philosophy, this edition of Frege's Foundations of Arithmetic is framed by a pedagogical structure designed to make this important work of philosophy more accessible and meaningful for undergraduates.

Abstraction and Infinity
Abstraction and Infinity

Author: Paolo Mancosu

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 0198746822

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Mancosu 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.

Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Fourth Edition
Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Fourth Edition

Author: Elliott Mendelson

Publisher: CRC Press

Published: 1997-06-01

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9780412808302

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The Fourth Edition of this long-established text retains all the key features of the previous editions, covering the basic topics of a solid first course in mathematical logic. This edition includes an extensive appendix on second-order logic, a section on set theory with urlements, and a section on the logic that results when we allow models with empty domains. The text contains numerous exercises and an appendix furnishes answers to many of them. Introduction to Mathematical Logic includes: propositional logic first-order logic first-order number theory and the incompleteness and undecidability theorems of Gödel, Rosser, Church, and Tarski axiomatic set theory theory of computability The study of mathematical logic, axiomatic set theory, and computability theory provides an understanding of the fundamental assumptions and proof techniques that form basis of mathematics. Logic and computability theory have also become indispensable tools in theoretical computer science, including artificial intelligence. Introduction to Mathematical Logic covers these topics in a clear, reader-friendly style that will be valued by anyone working in computer science as well as lecturers and researchers in mathematics, philosophy, and related fields.

Practical Foundations of Mathematics
Practical Foundations of Mathematics

Author: Paul Taylor

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1999-05-13

Total Pages: 590

ISBN-13: 9780521631075

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Practical Foundations collects the methods of construction of the objects of twentieth-century mathematics. Although it is mainly concerned with a framework essentially equivalent to intuitionistic Zermelo-Fraenkel logic, the book looks forward to more subtle bases in categorical type theory and the machine representation of mathematics. Each idea is illustrated by wide-ranging examples, and followed critically along its natural path, transcending disciplinary boundaries between universal algebra, type theory, category theory, set theory, sheaf theory, topology and programming. Students and teachers of computing, mathematics and philosophy will find this book both readable and of lasting value as a reference work.

Foundations of Analysis
Foundations of Analysis

Author: Edmund Landau

Publisher:

Published: 2021-02

Total Pages: 142

ISBN-13: 9781950217083

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Natural numbers, zero, negative integers, rational numbers, irrational numbers, real numbers, complex numbers, . . ., and, what are numbers? The most accurate mathematical answer to the question is given in this book.