Frédéric Patras: The Essence of Numbers

Cover: 9783030566999 | The Essence of Numbers | Frédéric Patras | Taschenbuch | Paperback

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Beschreibung

This book considers the manifold possible approaches, past and present, to our understanding of the natural numbers. They are treated as epistemic objects: mathematical objects that have been subject to epistemological inquiry and attention throughout their history and whose conception has evolved accordingly. Although they are the simplest and most common mathematical objects, as this book reveals, they have a very complex nature whose study illuminates subtle features of the functioning of our thought.

Using jointly history, mathematics and philosophy to grasp the essence of numbers, the reader is led through their various interpretations, presenting the ways they have been involved in major theoretical projects from Thales onward. Some pertain primarily to philosophy (as in the works of Plato, Aristotle, Kant, Wittgenstein...), others to general mathematics (Euclid's Elements, Cartesian algebraic geometry, Cantorian infinities, set theory...).

Also serving as an introduction to the works and thought of major mathematicians and philosophers, from Plato and Aristotle to Cantor, Dedekind, Frege, Husserl and Weyl, this book will be of interest to a wide variety of readers, from scholars with a general interest in the philosophy or mathematics to philosophers and mathematicians themselves.

Über den Autor

Frédéric Patras, alumnus of the École Normale Supérieure and research director at CNRS, is a mathematician who has long been committed to philosophical studies. Also the author of a book on contemporary mathematical thinking (La pensée mathématique contemporaine), he has published and edited over a hundred works on various subjects. He is interested in what the philosophical tradition can bring to our current understanding of science and mathematics.

Zusammenfassung

This is a unique book which systematically addresses the conceptual nature of numbers

Combines mathematics, philosophy and history as tools to account for the existence and essence of numbers

Draws on original analyses of key classical authors (Aristotle, Condillac, Frege, Husserl...)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction. - The Lasting Influence of Pythagorism. - The One and the Multiple. - Mathematics and Reality. - The Third Man Argument. - Numbers and Magnitudes. - Generalized Numbers I. - Generalized Numbers II. - Cantor and Set Theory. - Frege's Logicism. - Set Theory in Frege. - Axioms and Formalisms. - The Brain and Cognitive Processes. - Phenomenology of Numbers. - Universal Phenomena, Algebra, Categories.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2020
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Mathematik , Medizin , Naturwissenschaften , Technik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Reihe:	History of Mathematics Subseries
Inhalt:	xi 176 S. 1 s/w Illustr. 176 p. 1 illus.
ISBN-13:	9783030566999
ISBN-10:	3030566994
Sprache:	Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage:	Paperback
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Patras, Frédéric
Auflage:	1st ed. 2020
Hersteller:	Springer International Publishing Springer International Publishing AG History of Mathematics Subseries
Maße:	235 x 155 x 11 mm
Von/Mit:	Frédéric Patras
Erscheinungsdatum:	07.10.2020
Gewicht:	0,295 kg

Artikel-ID: 118741970