Principia Mathematica

Whitehead, Alfred North; Bertrand Russell

Published by Cambridge at the University Press, Cambridge, 1927

About this Item

Second edition, first impressions. Vol. 2 appears to be a later binding variant. Complete in three volumes. xlvi, 674, [1]; xxxi, [1], 742, [1]; viii, 491 pp. Publisher's dark blue cloth, spines of vols. 1 & 3 lettered in gilt, Vol. II lettered in silver. Vol. 1 in Very Good shape with stain dots to cloth, former owners' names written on front free endpaper, a few underlines to preface and equation written in margin of an early page. The other two volumes are free of markings. Bumped corners to Vol. 2, else Fine. Vol. 3 Fine. One of the major intellectual landmarks of the 20th century, Russell and Whitehead's Principia Mathematica sought to elegantly express mathematics in terms of symbolic logic. First published in 1910-13, the Principia Mathematica is deemed "the greatest single contribution to logic that has appeared in the two thousand years since Aristotle" (DSB). This second edition has been revised, and is of great importance for presenting a new "theory of types," meant to rectify the meta-logical paradoxes exposed by the first edition.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Principia Mathematica
• Publisher: Cambridge at the University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1927
• Edition: Second Edition.
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  • Mathematics