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Author Gray, Jeremy, 1947-

Title Plato's ghost : the modernist transformation of mathematics / Jeremy Gray.

Publication Info. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2008]
©2008

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 515 pages) : illustrations
Contents Modernism and mathematics -- Before modernism -- Mathematical modernism arrives -- Modernism avowed -- Faces of mathematics -- Mathematics, language, and psychology -- After the war.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-502) and index.
Summary Plato's Ghost examines the development of mathematics from 1880 to 1920 as a modernist transformation similar to those in art, literature, and music. --from publisher description.
Note Print version record.
Subject Mathematics -- History -- 19th century.
Mathematics -- Philosophy.
Aesthetics, Modern -- 19th century.
MATHEMATICS -- History & Philosophy.
Aesthetics, Modern. (OCoLC)fst00798800
Mathematics. (OCoLC)fst01012163
Mathematics -- Philosophy. (OCoLC)fst01012213
Chronological Term 1800 - 1899
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Gray, Jeremy, 1947- Plato's ghost. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2008 9780691136103 (DLC) 2007061027 (OCoLC)181517577
ISBN 9781400829040 (electronic bk.)
1400829046 (electronic bk.)
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