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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-100521626064

ISBN-139780521626064

eBay Product ID (ePID)396857

Product Key Features

Number of Pages460 Pages

Publication NamePrincipia Mathematica to *56

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year1997

SubjectHistory & Philosophy, Mechanics / General, Logic

TypeTextbook

AuthorBertrand Russell, Alfred North Whitehead

Subject AreaMathematics, Science

SeriesCambridge Mathematical Library

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight24 Oz

Item Length9.1 in

Item Width5.9 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number2

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN97-223757

Dewey Edition21

Dewey Decimal511.3

Table Of ContentPart I. Mathematical Logic: 1. The theory of deduction; 2. Theory of apparent variables; 3. Classes and relations; 4. Logic or relations; 5. Products and sums of classes; Part II. Prolegomena to Cardinal Arithmetic: 6. Unit classes and couples; Appendix A. Type theory of dependant variables and propositions containing apparent variables; Appendix B. Truth functions and others.

Edition DescriptionAbridged edition,Revised edition

SynopsisThe 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)., The great three-volume Principia Mathematica (CUP 1927) 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 premises and primitive ideas, establishing 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 of course 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 I (in which the logical properties of propositions, propositional functions, classes and relations are established); section A of Part II (dealing with unit classes and couples); and Appendices A and C (which give further developments of the argument on the theory of deduction and truth functions)., This abridged text of the great three-volume Principia Mathematica, deservedly the most famous work ever written on the foundations of mathematics, contains the material that is most relevant to an introductory study of logic and the philosophy of mathematics.

LC Classification NumberQA9 .W52 1997