Zach Weber

Paradoxes and Inconsistent Mathematics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Why are there paradoxes? This book uses paraconsistent logic to develop the mathematics to find out.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 766g
• ISBN-13: 9781108834414
• ISBN-10: 1108834418
• Artikelnr.: 61676965

Autorenporträt

Zach Weber is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Otago, New Zealand.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. What are the Paradoxes?: Introduction to an inconsistent world
1. Paradoxes
or, 'here in the presence of an absurdity'
Part II. How to Face the Paradoxes?: 2. In search of a uniform solution
3. Metatheory and naive theory
4. Prolegomena to any future inconsistent mathematics. Part III. Where are the Paradoxes?: 5. Set theory
6. Arithmetic
7. Algebra
8. Real analysis
9. Topology. Part IV. Why Are there Paradoxes?: 10. Ordinary paradox.