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Informationen zum Autor An English mathematician and philosopher, Alfred North Whitehead provided the foundation for the school of thought known as process philosophy. With an academic career that spanned from Cambridge to Harvard, Whitehead wrote extensively on mathematics, metaphysis, and philosophy. He died in Massachusetts in 1947. Zusammenfassung This abridged text of the great three-volume Principia Mathematica! deservedly the most famous work ever written on the foundations of mathematics! contains the material that is most relevant to an introductory study of logic and the philosophy of mathematics. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I. Mathematical Logic: 1. The theory of deduction; 2. Theory of apparent variables; 3. Classes and relations; 4. Logic or relations; 5. Products and sums of classes; Part II. Prolegomena to Cardinal Arithmetic: 6. Unit classes and couples; Appendix A. Type theory of dependant variables and propositions containing apparent variables; Appendix B. Truth functions and others.

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• Autori: Bertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead
• Editore: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 11.09.1997
• EAN: 9780521626064
• ISBN: 978-0-521-62606-4
• Dimensioni: 152 mm x 229 mm x 26 mm
• Serie: Cambridge Mathematical Library
• Categoria: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Matematica > Fondamenti