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The story of proof: logic and the history of mathematics
Stillwell J., PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, Princeton, NJ, 2022. 456 pp. Type: Book (0691234361), Reviews: (2 of 2)
Years ago, several of my colleagues in the university’s mathematics department told me that many high school students no longer study classic plane geometry, the kind of instruction that emphasizes careful logic applied to axioms, postulates...
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Feb 23 2023
The story of proof: logic and the history of mathematics
Stillwell J., PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, Princeton, NJ, 2022. 456 pp. Type: Book (0691234361), Reviews: (1 of 2)
The present book is aimed at a general mathematical audience. My third Stillwell book, it follows
Elements of mathematics
and
Reverse mathematics
[1,2] and maintains these predecessors’ high standards in content, sequence, and ...
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Jan 18 2023
Reverse mathematics: proofs from the inside out
Stillwell J., PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS, Princeton, NJ, 2018. 200 pp. Type: Book
Reverse mathematics “seeks the axioms needed to prove given theorems.” The work of Emil Post and Kurt Gödel, in the 1920s and 1930s, permanently dashed the hope that axiom systems could formally generate al...
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Nov 23 2020
Elements of mathematics: from Euclid to Gödel
Stillwell J., Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2016. 440 pp. Type: Book (978-0-691171-68-5)
Stillwell, the author of this exceptional work, states: “This book grew from an article I wrote in 2008 for the centenary of Felix Klein’s
Elementary mathematics from an advanced standpoint
” [1], an...
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Feb 28 2017
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