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Axiomatics : mathematical thought and high modernism
Author
Title
Axiomatics : mathematical thought and high modernism / Alma Steingart.
ISBN
9780226824192 (electronic bk.)
0226824195 (electronic bk.)
9780226824185
0226824187
9780226824208
0226824209
Publication
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Physical Description
1 online resource : illustrations (black and white.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Electronic reproduction. Berlin Available via World Wide Web.
Description based on print version record.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Variant and related titles
De Gruyter University Press eBook 2023.
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Original
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 15, 2023
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Pure abstraction: mathematics as modernism
Applied abstraction: axiomatics and the meaning of mathematization
Human abstraction: "The mathematics of man' and midcentury social sciences
Creative abstraction: abstract art, pure mathematics, and Cold War ideology
Unreasonable abstraction: the meaning of applicability, or the Miseducation of the applied mathematician
Historical abstraction: Kuhn, Skinner, and the problem of the weekday platonist.
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Walter de Gruyter & Co. University of Chicago Press Complete 2023.
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