Description: Wittgenstein's Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics, Cambridge, 1939 : From the Notes of . Bosanquet, Norman Malcolm, Rush Rhees, and Yorick, Paperback by Wittgenstein, Ludwig; Diamond, Cora (EDT), ISBN 0226904261, ISBN-13 9780226904269, Brand New, Free shipping in the US For several terms at Cambridge in 1939, Ludwig Wittgenstein lectured on the philosophical foundations of mathematics. A lecture class taught by Wittgenstein, however, hardly resembled a lecture. He sat on a chair in the middle of the room, with some of the class sitting in chairs, some on the floor. He never used notes. He paused frequently, sometimes for several minutes, while he puzzled out a problem. He often asked his listeners questions and reacted to their replies. Many meetings were largely conversation. These lectures were attended by, among others, D. A. T. Gasking, J. N. Findlay, Stephen Toulmin, Alan Turing, G. H. von Wright, R. G. Bosanquet, Norman Malcolm, Rush Rhees, and Yorick Smythies. Notes taken by these last four are the basis for the thirty-one lectures in this book. The lectures covered such topics as the nature of mathematics, the distinctions between mathematical and everyday languages, the truth of mathematical propositions, consistency and contradiction in formal systems, the logicism of Frege and Russell, Platonism, identity, negation, and necessary truth. The mathematical examples used are nearly always elementary.
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Book Title: Wittgenstein's Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics, Cambri
Number of Pages: 300 Pages
Publication Name: Wittgenstein's Lectures on the Foundations of Mathematics, Cambridge 1939
Language: English
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 1989
Subject: History & Philosophy, Language, General, Logic
Features: Reprint
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 12 Oz
Author: Ludwig Wittgenstein
Subject Area: Mathematics, Philosophy
Item Length: 8.5 in
Item Width: 5.5 in
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