Description: 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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Subject Area: Applied Mathematics
Publication Name: Wittgenstein's Lectures
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Item Length: 8 Inches
Subject: Mathematics
Publication Year: 2001
Type: Thesis/Dissertation
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 1 Inch
Author: Cora Diamond, R. G. Bosanquet, Ludwig Wittgenstein
Educational Level: Post Graduate Level
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Level: Proficiency
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 12.5 Ounces
Item Width: 5.5 Inches
Number of Pages: 293 Pages
