This book is not a biography of Hilbert; it is a survey of Hilbert's creative years, with excerpts from the first-hand sources, including the first English translation of his 1918 work: Axiomatisches Denken.

This is a study of the first Critique of Immanuel Kant, examining the first Critque as a whole, liimiting the study strictly relative to mathematics. The greatest emphasis is on the relevance and compatibility between Kant's epistemology and mathematics proper in the mainstream, yesterday, today and tomroow. This text draws a line of demarcation between mathematics and metamathmatics.

T s kuhn's theory is full of conspicuous flaws for all the immense popularity of his very thin book (perhaps because of it?) such that, however dubious, it has become a "paradigm" itself for an enormous number of (equally dubious) papers. pointed out in no uncertain terms here are then only two of its many "flaws": kuhn's unawareness of committing his cardinal sin of "historical circularity" (between his philosophy and history of science), and, because of this unawareness, his utterly a- (...) or un-historical "understanding ("verstehen")" of the actual history of max planck ("wie es eigentlich gewesen ist"). (shrink)