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Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (Galaxy Books): 686 Reprint Edition
Author(s): Morris Kline (Author)
- Publisher: Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
- Publication Date: 17 Jun. 1982
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 384 pages
- ISBN-10: 0195030850
- ISBN-13: 9780195030853
Book Description
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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Most intelligent people today still believe that mathematics is a body of unshakable truths about the physical world and that mathematical reasoning is exact and infallible. Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty refutes that myth.
