Brouwer's intuitionism /

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Author / Creator:Stigt, Walter P. van, 1927-
Imprint:Amsterdam ; New York : North-Holland ; New York, NY, USA : Sole distributors for the USA and Canada, Elsevier Science Pub. Co., 1990.
Description:xxvi, 530 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Language:English
Series:Studies in the history and philosophy of mathematics v. 2
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1173355
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ISBN:0444883843
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-516) and index.
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Summary:Hardbound. Dutch Mathematician Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer (1881-1966) was a rebel. His doctoral thesis... was the manifesto of an angry young man taking on the mathematical establishment on all fronts. In a short time he established a world-wide reputation for himself; his genius and originality were acknowledged by the great mathematicians of his time... The Intuitionist-Formalist debate became a personal feud between the mathematical giants Brouwer and Hilbert, and ended in 1928 with the expulsion of Brouwer from the editorial board of the Mathematische Annalen by dictat of Hilbert. Forsaken, humiliated and disillusioned Brouwer abandoned his Intuitionist Programme and withdrew into silence just about the time when the Formalist Programme appeared to be fundamentally flawed and major opposition collapsed...This book attempts to follow the genetic' development of Brouwer's ideas, linking the man Brouwer, his Weltanschauung, his philosophy of
Physical Description:xxvi, 530 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (p. [507]-516) and index.
ISBN:0444883843