From Brouwer to Hilbert

Download or read book From Brouwer to Hilbert written by Paolo Mancosu and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 1998 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most contemporary work in the foundations of mathematics takes its start from the groundbreaking contributions of, among others, Hilbert, Brouwer, Bernays, and Weyl. This book offers an introduction to the debate on the foundations of mathematics during the 1920s and presents the English reader with a selection of twenty five articles central to the debate which have not been previously translated. It is an ideal text for undergraduate and graduate courses in the philosophy of mathematics.