Bertrand Russell

An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry

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Produktbeschreibung

Bertrand Russell was a prolific writer, revolutionizing philosophy and doing extensive work in the study of logic. This, his first book on mathematics, was originally published in 1897 and later rejected by the author himself because it was unable to support Einstein's work in physics. This evolution makes An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry invaluable in understanding the progression of Russell's philosophical thinking. Despite his rejection of it, Essays continues to be a great work in logic and history, providing readers with an explanation for how Euclidean geometry was replaced by more advanced forms of math. British philosopher and mathematician BERTRAND ARTHUR WILLIAM RUSSELL (1872-1970) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1950. Among his many works are Why I Am Not a Christian (1927), Power: A New Social Analysis (1938), and My Philosophical Development (1959).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cosimo Classics
• Seitenzahl: 220
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9781602068582
• ISBN-10: 1602068585
• Artikelnr.: 23240873

Autorenporträt

Bertrand Arthur William Russell, OM, FRS was a British mathematician, philosopher, logician, and public intellectual who lived from 18 May 1872 to 2 February 1970. He had a significant impact on a number of branches of analytic philosophy as well as mathematics, logic, set theory, linguistics, artificial intelligence, cognitive science, and computer science. Russell was raised in a prominent, liberal British family. He taught German social democracy at the London School of Economics in 1896. In 1903, he released The Principles of Mathematics, a book on the foundations of mathematics. He was hired as a lecturer at Trinity College, a University of Cambridge institution, in 1910. Russell was one of the few individuals actively involved in pacifist initiatives during World War I. As a member of a British government delegation sent to study the consequences of the Russian Revolution, Bertrand Russell traveled to Soviet Russia in 1920. In 1940, he was hired as a philosophy professor at the City College of New York (CCNY), but following a backlash from the public over his views on morality and marriage, his appointment was annulled. On February 2, 1970, shortly after 8 o'clock at his Penrhyndeudraeth house, Russell died from influenza. On February 5, 1970, his corpse was burned in Colwyn Bay with five witnesses.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword to the Routledge Classics Edition Michael Potter
Preface
Introduction: Our Problem Defined by its Relations to Logic
Psychology and Mathematics
1. A Short History of Metageometry
2. Critical Account of Some Previous Philosophical Theories of Geometry
3. The Axioms of Projective Geometry and The Axioms of Metrical Geometry
4. Philosophical Consequences
Index