An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry

ISBN-13: 9781032312262 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 240 str.

Bertrand Russell; Michael Potter

Opis

An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry was first published in 1897 and marks Bertrand Russell's first foray into analytic philosophy, a movement in which Russell is one of the founding members and figurehead. This Routledge Classics edition includes a new Foreword by Michael Potter.

Spis treści

Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition Michael Potter, Preface, Introduction: Our Problem Defined by its Relations to Logic, Psychology and Mathematics, 1. A Short History of Metageometry, 2. Critical Account of Some Previous Philosophical Theories of Geometry, 3. The Axioms of Projective Geometry and The Axioms of Metrical Geometry, 4. Philosophical Consequences, Index

O autorze

Bertrand Russell (1872-1970). A celebrated mathematician and logician, Russell was and remains one of the most genuinely widely read and popular philosophers of modern times.