Reflections on the Foundations of Mathematics

Reflections on the Foundations of Mathematics

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  • Author: Stefania Centrone
  • Publisher: Springer Nature
  • ISBN: 3030156559
  • Category : Mathematics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 511

This edited work presents contemporary mathematical practice in the foundational mathematical theories, in particular set theory and the univalent foundations. It shares the work of significant scholars across the disciplines of mathematics, philosophy and computer science. Readers will discover systematic thought on criteria for a suitable foundation in mathematics and philosophical reflections around the mathematical perspectives. The volume is divided into three sections, the first two of which focus on the two most prominent candidate theories for a foundation of mathematics. Readers may trace current research in set theory, which has widely been assumed to serve as a framework for foundational issues, as well as new material elaborating on the univalent foundations, considering an approach based on homotopy type theory (HoTT). The third section then builds on this and is centred on philosophical questions connected to the foundations of mathematics. Here, the authors contribute to discussions on foundational criteria with more general thoughts on the foundations of mathematics which are not connected to particular theories. This book shares the work of some of the most important scholars in the fields of set theory (S. Friedman), non-classical logic (G. Priest) and the philosophy of mathematics (P. Maddy). The reader will become aware of the advantages of each theory and objections to it as a foundation, following the latest and best work across the disciplines and it is therefore a valuable read for anyone working on the foundations of mathematics or in the philosophy of mathematics.


Kurt Gödel and the Foundations of Mathematics

Kurt Gödel and the Foundations of Mathematics

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  • Author: Matthias Baaz
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1139498436
  • Category : Mathematics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 541

This volume commemorates the life, work and foundational views of Kurt Gödel (1906–78), most famous for his hallmark works on the completeness of first-order logic, the incompleteness of number theory, and the consistency - with the other widely accepted axioms of set theory - of the axiom of choice and of the generalized continuum hypothesis. It explores current research, advances and ideas for future directions not only in the foundations of mathematics and logic, but also in the fields of computer science, artificial intelligence, physics, cosmology, philosophy, theology and the history of science. The discussion is supplemented by personal reflections from several scholars who knew Gödel personally, providing some interesting insights into his life. By putting his ideas and life's work into the context of current thinking and perceptions, this book will extend the impact of Gödel's fundamental work in mathematics, logic, philosophy and other disciplines for future generations of researchers.


Labyrinth of Thought

Labyrinth of Thought

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  • Author: Jose Ferreiros
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 9783764357498
  • Category : Mathematics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 472

"José Ferreirós has written a magisterial account of the history of set theory which is panoramic, balanced, and engaging. Not only does this book synthesize much previous work and provide fresh insights and points of view, but it also features a major innovation, a full-fledged treatment of the emergence of the set-theoretic approach in mathematics from the early nineteenth century. This takes up Part One of the book. Part Two analyzes the crucial developments in the last quarter of the nineteenth century, above all the work of Cantor, but also Dedekind and the interaction between the two. Lastly, Part Three details the development of set theory up to 1950, taking account of foundational questions and the emergence of the modern axiomatization." (Bulletin of Symbolic Logic)


Bemerkungen Über Die Grundlagen Der Mathematik

Bemerkungen Über Die Grundlagen Der Mathematik

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  • Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Publisher:
  • ISBN: 9780262730174
  • Category : Mathematics
  • Languages : de
  • Pages : 204


Pluralism in Mathematics: A New Position in Philosophy of Mathematics

Pluralism in Mathematics: A New Position in Philosophy of Mathematics

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  • Author: Michèle Friend
  • Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
  • ISBN: 9400770588
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 297

This book is about philosophy, mathematics and logic, giving a philosophical account of Pluralism which is a family of positions in the philosophy of mathematics. There are four parts to this book, beginning with a look at motivations for Pluralism by way of Realism, Maddy’s Naturalism, Shapiro’s Structuralism and Formalism. In the second part of this book the author covers: the philosophical presentation of Pluralism; using a formal theory of logic metaphorically; rigour and proof for the Pluralist; and mathematical fixtures. In the third part the author goes on to focus on the transcendental presentation of Pluralism, and in part four looks at applications of Pluralism, such as a Pluralist approach to proof in mathematics and how Pluralism works in regard to together-inconsistent philosophies of mathematics. The book finishes with suggestions for further Pluralist enquiry. In this work the author takes a deeply radical approach in developing a new position that will either convert readers, or act as a strong warning to treat the word ‘pluralism’ with care.


Foundations of Space and Time

Foundations of Space and Time

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  • Author: Jeff Murugan
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 0521114403
  • Category : Science
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 453

Encapsulates the latest debates on this topic, giving researchers and graduate students an up-to-date view of the field.


New Spaces in Mathematics: Volume 1

New Spaces in Mathematics: Volume 1

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  • Author: Mathieu Anel
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN: 1108848214
  • Category : Mathematics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 602

After the development of manifolds and algebraic varieties in the previous century, mathematicians and physicists have continued to advance concepts of space. This book and its companion explore various new notions of space, including both formal and conceptual points of view, as presented by leading experts at the New Spaces in Mathematics and Physics workshop held at the Institut Henri Poincaré in 2015. The chapters in this volume cover a broad range of topics in mathematics, including diffeologies, synthetic differential geometry, microlocal analysis, topos theory, infinity-groupoids, homotopy type theory, category-theoretic methods in geometry, stacks, derived geometry, and noncommutative geometry. It is addressed primarily to mathematicians and mathematical physicists, but also to historians and philosophers of these disciplines.


Philosophy of Mathematics in the Twentieth Century

Philosophy of Mathematics in the Twentieth Century

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  • Author: Charles Parsons
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • ISBN: 0674419499
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 365

In these selected essays, Charles Parsons surveys the contributions of philosophers and mathematicians who shaped the philosophy of mathematics over the past century: Brouwer, Hilbert, Bernays, Weyl, Gödel, Russell, Quine, Putnam, Wang, and Tait.


The Continuum

The Continuum

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  • Author: Hermann Weyl
  • Publisher: Courier Corporation
  • ISBN: 0486679829
  • Category : Mathematics
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 165

Concise classic by great mathematician and physicist deals with logic and mathematics of set and function, concept of number and the continuum. Bibliography. Originally published 1918.


Functions and Generality of Logic

Functions and Generality of Logic

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  • Author: Hourya Benis-Sinaceur
  • Publisher: Springer
  • ISBN: 3319171097
  • Category : Philosophy
  • Languages : en
  • Pages : 145

This book examines three connected aspects of Frege’s logicism: the differences between Dedekind’s and Frege’s interpretation of the term ‘logic’ and related terms and reflects on Frege’s notion of function, comparing its understanding and the role it played in Frege’s and Lagrange’s foundational programs. It concludes with an examination of the notion of arbitrary function, taking into account Frege’s, Ramsey’s and Russell’s view on the subject. Composed of three chapters, this book sheds light on important aspects of Dedekind’s and Frege’s logicisms. The first chapter explains how, although he shares Frege’s aim at substituting logical standards of rigor to intuitive imports from spatio-temporal experience into the deductive presentation of arithmetic, Dedekind had a different goal and used or invented different tools. The chapter highlights basic dissimilarities between Dedekind’s and Frege’s actual ways of doing and thinking. The second chapter reflects on Frege’s notion of a function, in comparison with the notions endorsed by Lagrange and the followers of the program of arithmetization of analysis. It remarks that the foundational programs pursued by Lagrange and Frege are crucially different and based on a different idea of what the foundations of mathematics should be like. However, despite this contrast, the notion of function plays similar roles in the two programs, and this chapter emphasizes the similarities. The third chapter traces the development of thinking about Frege’s program in the foundations of mathematics, and includes comparisons of Frege’s, Russell’s and Ramsey’s views. The chapter discusses earlier papers written by Hintikka, Sandu, Demopoulos and Trueman. Although the chapter’s main focus is on the notion of arbitrary correlation, it starts out by discussing some aspects of the connection between this notion and Dedekind Theorem.