Proofs of the cantor-bernstein theorem : a mathematical excursion /

This book offers an excursion through the developmental area of research mathematics. It presents some 40 papers, published between the 1870s and the 1970s, on proofs of the Cantor-Bernstein theorem and the related Bernstein division theorem. While the emphasis is placed on providing accurate proofs...

詳細記述

保存先:
書誌詳細
第一著者: Hinkis, Arie (著者)
団体著者: SpringerLink (Online service)
フォーマット: eBook
言語:English
出版事項: Basel Springer Basel 2013.
シリーズ:Science Networks. Historical Studies 45
主題:
オンライン・アクセス:Click here to view the full text content
タグ: タグ追加
タグなし, このレコードへの初めてのタグを付けませんか!
その他の書誌記述
要約:This book offers an excursion through the developmental area of research mathematics. It presents some 40 papers, published between the 1870s and the 1970s, on proofs of the Cantor-Bernstein theorem and the related Bernstein division theorem. While the emphasis is placed on providing accurate proofs, similar to the originals, the discussion is broadened to include aspects that pertain to the methodology of the development of mathematics and to the philosophy of mathematics. Works of prominent mathematicians and logicians are reviewed, including Cantor, Dedekind, Schröder, Bernstein, Borel, Zermelo, Poincaré, Russell, Peano, the Königs, Hausdorff, Sierpinski, Tarski, Banach, Brouwer and several others mainly of the Polish and the Dutch schools. In its attempt to present a diachronic narrative of one mathematical topic, the book resembles Lakatos' celebrated book Proofs and Refutations. Indeed, some of the observations made by Lakatos are corroborated herein. The analogy between the two books is clearly anything but superficial, as the present book also offers new theoretical insights into the methodology of the development of mathematics (proof-processing), with implications for the historiography of mathematics.
物理的記述:1 online resource (XXIII, 429 pages) 29 illustration, 3 illustration in colour.
ISBN:9783034802246