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008			051107s2006 nju b 001 0 eng
010			_a 2005031916
020			_a0471648779 (cloth : acidfree paper)
040			_cNUL
082	0	0	_a510 _222 _bHIL-G 2006 13097
100	1		_aHellman, Hal, _d1927-
245	1	0	_aGreat feuds in mathematics : _bten of the liveliest disputes ever / _cHal Hellman. _6880
260			_aHoboken, N.J. : _bJohn Wiley, _cc2006.
300			_avi, 250 p. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aTartaglia 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?
650		0	_aMathematics.
942			_2ddc _cBK
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