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Plato's ghost : the modernist transformation of mathematics
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Plato's ghost : the modernist transformation of mathematics

Author: Jeremy Gray
Publisher: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2008.
Edition/Format: Book : English
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Plato's Ghost examines the development of mathematics from 1880 to 1920 as a modernist transformation similar to those in art, literature, and music. --from publisher description
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Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Jeremy Gray
ISBN: 9780691136103 0691136106
OCLC Number: 181517577
Description: viii, 515 p. : ill. ; 27 cm.
Contents: Modernism and mathematics -- Before modernism -- Mathematical modernism arrives -- Modernism avowed -- Faces of mathematics -- Mathematics, language, and philosophy -- After the war.
Responsibility: Jeremy Gray.

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Plato's Ghost examines the development of mathematics from 1880 to 1920 as a modernist transformation similar to those in art, literature, and music. --from publisher description
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