From Frege to Gödel: A Source Book in Mathematical Logic, 1879-1931 (Source Books in the History of the Sciences) - Softcover

Jean Van Heijenoort

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674324498 ISBN 13: 9780674324497

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1990

Synopsis

A Source Book in Mathematical Logic, 1879-1931

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Review:

There can be no doubt that the book is a valuable contribution to the logical literature and that it will certainly spread the knowledge of mathematical logic and its history in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.--Andrzej Mostowski "Synthese "

A Bible for historians of logic and computer science, this invaluable collection will profit anyone interested in the interplay between mathematics and philosophy in the early decades of the twentieth century. It provides a unique and comprehensive way to appreciate how modern mathematical logic unfolded in the hands of its greatest founding practitioners.--Juliet Floyd, Boston University

Year in, year out, I recommend this book enthusiastically to students and colleagues for sources in the history and philosophy of modern logic and the foundations of mathematics; I use my own copy so much, it is falling apart.--Solomon Feferman, Stanford University

The outstanding quality of the translations and introductions still make this source book the most important reference for the history of mathematical logic.--Paolo Mancosu, University of California, Berkeley

For more than three decades this outstanding collection has been the authoritative source of basic texts in mathematical logic in the English language; it remains without peer to this day.--Michael Detlefson, University of Notre Dame

Meticulously edited, with excellent translations and helpful introductory notes, From Frege to Gödel is an indispensable volume for anyone interested in the development of modern logic and its philosophical impact.--Warren Goldfarb, Harvard University

It is difficult to describe this book without praising it...[From Frege to Gödel] is, in effect, the record of an important chapter in the history of thought. No serious student of logic or foundations of mathematics will want to be without it.--Review of Metaphysics

If there is one book that every philosopher interested in the history of logic should own, not to mention all the philosophers who pretend they know something about the history of logic, From Frege to Gödel is that book.--Hilary Putnam, Harvard University

From Frege to Gödel lays out before our eyes the turbulent panorama in which modern logic came to be.--W. D. Hart, University of Illinois at Chicago

From Frege to Gödel is the single most important collection of original papers from the development of mathematical logic-an invaluable source for all students of the subject.--Michael Friedman, University of Indiana

About the Author:

Jean van Heijenoort, well known in the fields of mathematical logic and foundations of mathematics, is Professor of Philosophy at Brandeis University and has taught at New York and Columbia Universities.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 0674324498
• ISBN 13: 9780674324497
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 672