Plato's ghost : the modernist transformation of mathematics / Jeremy Gray.
By: Gray, Jeremy.
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BookPublisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008Description: viii, 515 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.ISBN: 9780691136103 (alk. paper); 0691136106 (alk. paper).Subject(s): Mathematics -- History -- 19th century | Mathematics -- Philosophy | Aesthetics, Modern -- 19th centuryDDC classification: 510.9/034
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Summary: 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
Modernism and mathematics -- Before modernism -- Mathematical modernism arrives -- Modernism avowed -- Faces of mathematics -- Mathematics, language, and psychology -- After the war.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [473]-502) and index.
Modernism and mathematics -- Before modernism -- Mathematical modernism arrives -- Modernism avowed -- Faces of mathematics -- Mathematics, language, and psychology -- 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
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