Principia Mathematica to *56
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| Rating | : | 4.49 (589 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 052109187X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 456 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-11-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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The audacity to hope to formalize all of mathematics logically was inspirational and helped to give great boosts to math and logical philosophy. Their goal, to set mathematics on a firm logical foundation, was revolutionary, and their tools and rigor continue to influence modern professionals. Could it be true that Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica is the most influential book written in the 20th century? Ask any mathematician or philosopher--or anyone who understands the impact these fields have had on modern thinking--and you'll get a short answer: yes. Though Gödel proved in 1931 that any such program is doomed to incompleteness, the tools found in and dev
Its aim is to deduce all the fundamental propositions of logic and mathematics from a small number of logical premises and primitive ideas, establishing that mathematics is a development of logic. This abridged text of Volume I contains the material that is most relevant to an introductory study of logic and the philosophy of mathematics (more advanced students will of course wish to refer to the complete edition). It contains the whole of the preliminary sections (which present the authors' justification of the philosophical standpoint adopted at the outset of their work); the whole of Part I (in which the logical properties of propositions, propositional functions, classes and relations are established); section A
Principia is wonderful, this book is NOT Principia. There are lots of multi-paragraph reviews on this item, which are reviewing how wonderful is the work that is Principia Mathematica. That's nice. I wonder if any of the people here bought THIS COPY of the book.Let me warn you as to what you are going to receive.You'll receive the middle of the book. Chapters 3-5 to be exact. You'. "This is incomplete (as others have noted). If you" according to Robb Swanson. This is incomplete (as others have noted). If you want the complete set of three volumes, it is available for free at :https://archive.org/details/PrincipiaMathematicaVolumeIhttps://archive.org/details/PrincipiaMathematicaVol2https://archive.org/details/PrincipiaMathematicaVolumeIiiaSorry, Amazon, but you shouldn't be charging fo. Warning -- Don't Buy General Books LLC Version Michael I haven't read Whitehead and Russell yet; I received the General Books print to order gibberish today and will be mailing it back to Amazon tomorrow. Don't they realize what they're selling? Garbage! I will strive not to make this mistake again!