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Mathematics, the loss of certainty
Morris Kline · 2009 · 448 pages
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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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