A Critical Exposition of Arguments for Intuitionism
by
Tomasz Placek
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
In 1907 Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer defended his doctoral dissertation on the foundations of mathematics and with this event the modem version of mathematical intuitionism came into being. Brouwer attacked the main currents of the philosophy of mathematics: the formalists and the Platonists. In tum,...