Mathematicians Versus Philosophers in Recent Work on Mathematical Beauty
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Mathematical Methods in Philosophy
Mathematics and philosophy have historically enjoyed a mutually beneficial and productive relationship, as a brief review of the work of mathematician-philosophers such as Descartes, Leibniz, Bolzano, Dedekind, Frege, Brouwer, Hilbert, Gödel, and Weyl easily confirms. In the last century, it was especially mathematical logic and research in the foundations of mathematics which, to a significant...
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تاریخ انتشار 2018