Mathematics
Douban
ISBN: 9780195030853
author:
Morris Kline
publishing house: Oxford University Press
publication date: 1982
-6
binding: Paperback
price: USD 19.95
number of pages: 384
The Loss of Certainty
Morris Kline
overview
This work stresses the illogical manner in which mathematics has developed, the question of applied mathematics as against 'pure' mathematics, and the challenges to the consistency of mathematics' logical structure that have occurred in the twentieth century.