Axiomatics : mathematical thought and high modernism /: mathematical thought and high modernism. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Alma Steingart.
• Authors: Steingart, Alma
• Contents: Intro -- Contents -- Note to Readers -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Pure Abstraction: Mathematics as Modernism -- Chapter 2. Applied Abstraction: Axiomatics and the Meaning of Mathematization -- Chapter 3. Human Abstraction: "The Mathematics of Man" and Midcentury Social Sciences -- Chapter 4. Creative Abstraction: Abstract Art, Pure Mathematics, and Cold War Ideology -- Chapter 5. Unreasonable Abstraction: The Meaning of Applicability, or the Miseducation of the Applied Mathematician -- Chapter 6. Historical Abstraction: Kuhn, Skinner, and the Problem of the Weekday Platonist -- Epilogue Acknowledgments -- Archival Collections -- Notes -- Index
• Publisher Details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 510.1; Mathematics -- Philosophy -- History -- 20th century; Mathematics -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Knowledge, Theory of -- United States -- History -- 20th century; Axiomatic set theory; MATHEMATICS / General
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226824192; 0226824195
• Related ISBNs: 9780226824185; 9780226824208
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.