an outstanding collection, highly informative, sometimes provocative, often insightful, and throughout displaying the great clarity and command which are hallmarks of the author's writing.

Geoffrey Hellman, Philosophia Mathematica, Vol. 9, No. 2, 2001

Feferman's book shows that, far from being over, work on the foundations of mathematics is vibrant and continuing, perched deliciously but precariously between mathematics and philosophy.

The Mathematical Intelligencer

Solomon Feferman is one of the leading figures in the philosophy of mathematics. This volume brings together a selection of his most important recent writings, covering the relation between logic and mathematics, proof theory, objectivity and intentionality in mathematics, and key issues in the work of Gödel, Hilbert, and Turing. A number of the papers appeared originally in obscure places and are not well-known, and others are published here for the first time. All of the material has been revised and annotated to bring it up to date.
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This volume brings together a selection of Solomon Feferman's most important recent writings, covering the relation between logic and mathematics, proof theory, objectivity and intensionality in mathematics, and key issues in the work of Gödel, Hilbert, and Turing.
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I: FOUNDATIONAL PROBLEMS ; 1. Declining the undecidable: Wrestling with Hilbert's Problems ; 2. Infinity in Mathematics: Is Cantor necessary? ; 3. The logic of mathematical discovery vs. the logical structure of mathematics ; II: FOUNDATIONAL WAYS ; 4. Foundational Ways ; 5. Working Foundations ; III: GODEL ; 6. Godel's life and work ; 7. Kurt Godel: conviction and caution ; 8. Introductory note to Godel's 1993 lecture ; IV: PROOF THEORY ; 9. What does logic have to tell us about mathematical proofs? ; 10. What rests on what? The proof-theoretic analysis of mathematics ; 11. Godel's Dialectica interpretation and its two-way stretch ; V: COUNTABLY REDUCIBLE MATHEMATICS ; 12. Infinity in mathematics: Is Cantor necessary? (Conclusion) ; 13. Weyl vindicated: Das Kontinuum 70 years later ; 14. Why a little bit goes a long way: Logical Foundations of scientifically applicable mathematics
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"...the papers in this book provide an illuminating picture of much of the past work and a good deal of current progress in the foundations of mathematics. The author, one of the most distinguished contributors to that progress within the last four decades, is an excellent expositor of the various issues in the forefront of recent research..."--Mathematical Reviews
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Product details

ISBN
9780195080308
Published
1999
Publisher
Oxford University Press Inc
Weight
649 gr
Height
241 mm
Width
155 mm
Thickness
27 mm
Age
P, 06
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Number of pages
352