Stewart (Hrsg.) Shapiro

The History of Continua

Philosophical and Mathematical Perspectives

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Mathematical and philosophical thought about continuity has changed considerably over the ages, from Aristotle's insistence that a continuum is a unified whole, to the dominant account today, that a continuum is composed of infinitely many points. This book explores the key ideas and debates concerning continuity over more than 2500 years.

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Hellman, Geoffrey (Hrsg.)

ISBN: 978-0-19-880964-7
EAN: 9780198809647
Produktnummer: 34232832
Verlag: Oxford Academic
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
Seitenangabe: 592 S.
Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.3 cm

Über den Autor

Stewart Shapiro received an M.A. in mathematics in 1975, and a Ph.D. in philosophy in 1978, both from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He is currently the O'Donnell Professor of Philosophy at The Ohio State University, and serves as Distinguished Visiting Professor at the University of Connecticut, and Presidential Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He has contributed to the philosophy of mathematics, philosophy of language, logic, andphilosophy of logic. Geoffrey Hellman received his BA and PhD from Harvard (PhD 1973). He has published widely in philosophy of quantum mechanics and philosophy of mathematics, developing a modal-structural interpretation of mathematics. He has also worked on predicative foundations of arithmetic (with Solomon Feferman) and pluralism in mathematics (with John L. Bell). In 2007 he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He and Stewart Shapiro co-authored Varieties of Continua: from Regions toPoints and Back (Oxford, 2018).