Great feuds in mathematics : ten of the liveliest disputes ever /
Hellman, Hal, 1927-
Great feuds in mathematics : ten of the liveliest disputes ever / Hal Hellman. - Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2006. - vi, 250 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Tartaglia versus Cardano. Solving cubic equations -- Descartes versus Fermat. Analytic geometry and optics -- Newton versus Leibniz. Credit for the calculus -- Bernoulli versus Bernoulli. Sibling rivalry of the highest order -- Sylvester versus Huxley. Ivory tower or real world? -- Kronecker versus Cantor. Mathematical insanity -- Borel versus Zermelo. The "notorious axiom" -- Poincar versus Russell. The logical foundations of mathematics -- Hilbert versus Brouwer. Formalism versus intuitionism -- Absolutists/platonists versus fallibilists/constructionists. Are mathematical advances discoveries or inventions?
0471648779 (cloth : acidfree paper)
2005031916
Mathematics.
510 / HIL-G 2006 13097
Great feuds in mathematics : ten of the liveliest disputes ever / Hal Hellman. - Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley, c2006. - vi, 250 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Tartaglia versus Cardano. Solving cubic equations -- Descartes versus Fermat. Analytic geometry and optics -- Newton versus Leibniz. Credit for the calculus -- Bernoulli versus Bernoulli. Sibling rivalry of the highest order -- Sylvester versus Huxley. Ivory tower or real world? -- Kronecker versus Cantor. Mathematical insanity -- Borel versus Zermelo. The "notorious axiom" -- Poincar versus Russell. The logical foundations of mathematics -- Hilbert versus Brouwer. Formalism versus intuitionism -- Absolutists/platonists versus fallibilists/constructionists. Are mathematical advances discoveries or inventions?
0471648779 (cloth : acidfree paper)
2005031916
Mathematics.
510 / HIL-G 2006 13097