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WITTGENSTEIN, MATHEMATICS AND WORLD
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| By: |
Robert Clark |
| Format: |
Hardback |
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£79.99 |
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| ISBN 10: |
3319639900 |
| ISBN 13: |
9783319639901 |
| Publisher: |
SPRINGER INTERNATIONAL PUBLISHING AG |
| Pub. date: |
6 October, 2017 |
| Edition: |
1st ed. 2017 |
| Series: |
History of Analytic Philosophy |
| Pages: |
213 |
| Description: |
This book uses Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophical methodology to solve a problem that has perplexed thinkers for thousands of years: why does (abstract) mathematics applies so wonderfully well to the (concrete, physical) world? |
| Synopsis: |
This book uses Ludwig Wittgenstein's philosophical methodology to solve a problem that has perplexed thinkers for thousands of years: why does (abstract) mathematics applies so wonderfully well to the (concrete, physical) world? The book is distinctive in several ways. First, it gives the reader a route into understanding important features of Wittgenstein's writings and lectures by using his methodology to tackle this long-standing and seemingly intractable philosophical problem. More than this, though, it offers an outline of important (sometimes little-known) aspects of the development of mathematical thought through the ages, and an engagement of Wittgenstein's philosophy with this and with contemporary philosophy of mathematics on its own terms. A clear overview of all this in the context of Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics is interesting in its own right; it is also just what is needed to solve the problem of mathematics and world. |
| Illustrations: |
9 Illustrations, black and white; XIV, 213 p. 9 illus. |
| Publication: |
Switzerland |
| Imprint: |
Springer International Publishing AG |
| Returns: |
Returnable |