Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty

New York, NY, USA: Oxford University Press USA (1982)
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This work stresses the illogical manner in which mathematics has developed, the question of applied mathematics as against 'pure' mathematics, and the challenges to the consistency of mathematics' logical structure that have occurred in the twentieth century.

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