The Origin of the Logic of Symbolic Mathematics: Edmund Husserl and Jacob Klein

by Burt C. Hopkins and Don Giannatti

Burt C. Hopkins presents the first in-depth study of the work of Edmund Husserl and Jacob Klein on the philosophical foundations of the logic of modern symbolic mathematics. Accounts of the philosophical origins of formalized concepts--especially mathematical concepts and the process of mathematical abstraction that generates them--have been paramount to the development of phenomenology. Both Husserl and Klein independently concluded that it is...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253356717
• ISBN13: 9780253356710
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 592 Pages
• Weight: 2.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.4" x 9.2"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher