Zermelo's Axiom of Choice: Its Origins, Development, and Influence.

Series: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences, 8. 8vo. xiv, 410, [ads 1] pp. 1 illustration, bibliography, indices. Yellow cloth; spine ends slightly creased. Bookplate. Very good. ISBN: 0387906703 ISBN: 3540906703

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This book grew out of my interest in what is common to three disciplines: mathematics, philosophy, and history. The origins of Zermelo's Axiom of Choice, as well as the controversy that it engendered, certainly lie in that intersection. Since the time of Aristotle, mathematics has been concerned alternately with its assumptions and with the objects, such as number and space, about which those assumptions were made. In the historical context of Zermelo's Axiom, I have explored both the vagaries and the fertility of this alternating concern. Though Zermelo's research has provided the focus for this book, much of it is devoted to the problems from which his work originated and to the later developments which, directly or indirectly, he inspired. A few remarks about format are in order. In this book a publication is indicated by a date after a name; so Hilbert 1926, 178 refers to page 178 of an article written by Hilbert, published in 1926, and listed in the bibliography.

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ISBN: 0387906703

ISBN-13: 9780387906706

Publisher: Springer, (1982).

Year: 1982

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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