Brouwer's Cambridge lectures on intuitionism

Author(s)

• Brouwer, L. E. J. (Luitzen Egbertus Jan)
• Dalen, D. van (Dirk van)

Bibliographic Information

Brouwer's Cambridge lectures on intuitionism

edited by D. van Dalen

UT Back-in-Print Service, 1999

Note

Bibliography: p. 103-105

Includes index

Reprint. Originally published : Cambridge [Eng.] ; New York : Cambridge University Press , 1981

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Luitzen Egburtus Jan Brouwer founded a school of thought whose aim was to include mathematics within the framework of intuitionistic philosophy; mathematics was to be regarded as an essentially free development of the human mind. What emerged diverged considerably at some points from tradition, but intuitionism has survived well the struggle between contending schools in the foundations of mathematics and exact philosophy. Originally published in 1981, this monograph contains a series of lectures dealing with most of the fundamental topics such as choice sequences, the continuum, the fan theorem, order and well-order. Brouwer's own powerful style is evident throughout the work.

Table of Contents

• Frontispiece L. E. J. Brouwer
• Editorial preface
• 1. Historical introduction and fundamental notions
• 2. General properties of species, spread directions, spreads and spaces
• 3. Order
• 4. Precision analysis of the continuum
• 5. The bunch theorem
• Appendix
• Notes
• References
• Index.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA4241369X
• ISBN:
  • 0521234417
• Country Code: cn
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Toronto
• Pages/Volumes: xii, 109 p.
• Size: 23 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : QA9.47
  • DC19 : 511/.2
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Intuitionistic mathematics