Essay on the Foundations of Geometry

An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry was first published in 1897 and marks Bertrand Russell's first foray into analytic philosophy, a movement in which Russell is one of the founding members and figurehead. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Michael Potter.

List of contents

Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition Michael Potter, Preface, Introduction: Our Problem Defined by its Relations to Logic, Psychology and Mathematics, 1. A Short History of Metageometry, 2. Critical Account of Some Previous Philosophical Theories of Geometry, 3. The Axioms of Projective Geometry and The Axioms of Metrical Geometry, 4. Philosophical Consequences, Index

About the author

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970). A celebrated mathematician and logician, Russell was and remains one of the most genuinely widely read and popular philosophers of modern times.

Summary

An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry was first published in 1897 and marks Bertrand Russell's first foray into analytic philosophy, a movement in which Russell is one of the founding members and figurehead. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Michael Potter.

Product details

• Authors: Bertrand Russell
• Assisted by: Michael Potter (Foreword)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.09.2022
• EAN: 9781032312644
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3231264-4
• No. of pages: 204
• Series: Routledge Classics
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / General, Philosophy of Mathematics, Western philosophy from c 1800, Philosophy: logic, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -