UID:
almahu_9948233757602882
Format:
1 online resource (xlvi, 410 pages) :
,
digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
Second edition.
ISBN:
9780511623585 (ebook)
Series Statement:
Cambridge mathematical library
Uniform Title:
Principia mathematica
Content:
The great three-volume Principia Mathematica is deservedly the most famous work ever written on the foundations of mathematics. Its aim is to deduce all the fundamental propositions of logic and mathematics from a small number of logical premisses and primitive ideas, and so to prove that mathematics is a development of logic. This abridged text of Volume I contains the material that is most relevant to an introductory study of logic and the philosophy of mathematics (more advanced students will wish to refer to the complete edition). It contains the whole of the preliminary sections (which present the authors' justification of the philosophical standpoint adopted at the outset of their work); the whole of Part 1 (in which the logical properties of propositions, propositional functions, classes and relations are established); section 6 of Part 2 (dealing with unit classes and couples); and Appendices A and B (which give further developments of the argument on the theory of deduction and truth functions).
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521626064
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511623585
