Screen LibraryPlato's ghost：the modernist transformation of mathematics
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, N.J. |
| Publication Dates: | c2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | viii, 515 p.: ill. ; 27 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780691136103 (alk. paper) 0691136106 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | O11 |
| CLC: |
O11 O1-0 |
| Call Number: | O11/G779 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. [473]-502) and index. Modernism and mathematics -- Before modernism -- Mathematical modernism arrives -- Modernism avowed -- Faces of mathematics -- Mathematics, language, and philosophy -- After the war. Plato's Ghost examines the development of mathematics from 1880 to 1920 as a modernist transformation similar to those in art, literature, and music. --from publisher description |