David Hilbert's Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics and Physics - 6: David Hilbert's Notebooks and General Foundational Lectures

Volume 6 contains a selection of material exhibiting many of Hilbert's philosophical and foundational views on particular theories and the exact sciences in general, drawn from his private notebooks and from lectures for more general audiences held in the 1920s.

List of contents

Excerpts from the diaries and some popular lectures.

About the author

David Hilbert (1862-1943) gilt als der vielleicht universellste Mathematiker des ausgehenden 19. und beginnenden 20. Jahrhunderts. Er hat auf zahlreichen Gebieten der Mathematik und der mathematischen Physik grundlegende neue Resultate vorgelegt und wesentliche Entwicklungen angebahnt.

Summary

Volume 6 contains a selection of material exhibiting many of Hilbert’s philosophical and foundational views on particular theories and the exact sciences in general, drawn from his private notebooks and from lectures for more general audiences held in the 1920s.

Product details

• Authors: David Hilbert
• Assisted by: William Ewald (Editor), Michae Hallett (Editor), Michael Hallett (Editor), Ulrich Majer (Editor), Ulrich Majer et al (Editor), Wilfried Sieg (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 14.11.2026
• EAN: 9783540205791
• ISBN: 978-3-540-20579-1
• No. of pages: 600
• Illustrations: 590 p.
• Sets: David Hilbert's Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics and Physics; David Hilbert's Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics and Physics
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Mathematics > General, dictionaries; Philosophie, Geometrie, C, History, mathematische Grundlagen, Mathematik: Logik, Mathematische Physik, Philosophy, Mathematics, geometry, Mathematics and Statistics, Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics, Mathematical physics, History of Mathematical Sciences, Mathematical logic, Mathematical Logic and Foundations, Mathematical foundations, Philosophy, general