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Axiomatics : mathematical thought and high modernism

Title
Axiomatics : mathematical thought and high modernism / Alma Steingart.
Author
Steingart, Alma
Publication
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2023.

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Description
1 online resource.
Subject
  • Mathematics > Philosophy > History > 20th century
  • Mathematics > United States > History > 20th century
  • Knowledge, Theory of > United States > History > 20th century
  • Axiomatic set theory
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction (note)
  • Electronic reproduction.
Source of Description (note)
  • Description based on print version record.
Contents
Pure abstraction: mathematics as modernism -- Applied abstraction: axiomatics and the meaning of mathematization -- Human abstraction: "The mathematics of man' and midcentury social sciences -- Creative abstraction: abstract art, pure mathematics, and Cold War ideology -- Unreasonable abstraction: the meaning of applicability, or the Miseducation of the applied mathematician -- Historical abstraction: Kuhn, Skinner, and the problem of the weekday platonist.
ISBN
  • 9780226824192 (electronic bk.)
  • 0226824195 (electronic bk.)
OCLC
ebd2945602820
Author
Steingart, Alma, author.
Title
Axiomatics : mathematical thought and high modernism / Alma Steingart.
Publisher
Chicago : The University of Chicago Press, 2023.
Type of Content
text
Type of Medium
computer
Type of Carrier
online resource
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Reproduction
Electronic reproduction. Ipswich, MA Available via World Wide Web.
Note
Description based on print version record.
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Original 9780226824185 0226824187 9780226824208 0226824209 (DLC) 2022026640
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