Alfred North Whitehead, Bertrand Russell

Principia Mathematica to *56

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Produktbeschreibung

An abridged text of Principia Mathematica, suitable for an introductory study of logic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Pbk
• Seitenzahl: 460
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Dezember 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 741g
• ISBN-13: 9780521626064
• ISBN-10: 0521626064
• Artikelnr.: 21970399

Autorenporträt

An English mathematician and philosopher, Alfred North Whitehead provided the foundation for the school of thought known as process philosophy. With an academic career that spanned from Cambridge to Harvard, Whitehead wrote extensively on mathematics, metaphysis, and philosophy. He died in Massachusetts in 1947.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Mathematical Logic: 1. The theory of deduction
2. Theory of apparent variables
3. Classes and relations
4. Logic or relations
5. Products and sums of classes
Part II. Prolegomena to Cardinal Arithmetic: 6. Unit classes and couples
Appendix A. Type theory of dependant variables and propositions containing apparent variables
Appendix B. Truth functions and others.