Plato's Problem: An Introduction to Mathematical Platonism

by Andrea Sereni, Marco Panza, A. Sereni

Book Overview

What is mathematics about? And if it is about some sort of mathematical reality, how can we have access to it? This is the problem raised by Plato, which still today is the subject of lively philosophical disputes. This book traces the history of the problem, from its origins to its contemporary treatment. It discusses the answers given by Aristotle, Proclus and Kant, through Frege's and Russell's versions of logicism, Hilbert's formalism, G del's...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0230365485
• ISBN13: 9780230365483
• Release Date: January 2013
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 306 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.8"