Wittgenstein's Annotations to Hardy's Course of Pure Mathematics

Wittgenstein's Annotations to Hardy's Course of Pure Mathematics

An Investigation of Wittgenstein's Non-Extensionalist Understanding of the Real Numbers

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This monograph examines the private annotations that Ludwig Wittgenstein made to his copy of G.H. Hardy's classic textbook, A Course of Pure Mathematics. Complete with actual images of the annotations, it gives readers a more complete picture of Wittgenstein's remarks on irrational numbers, which have only been published in an excerpted form and, as a result, have often been unjustly criticized.The authors first establish the context behind the annotations and discuss the historical role of Hardy's textbook. They then go on to outline Wittgenstein's non-extensionalist point of view on real num...