Foundations of Mathematics

Questions of Analysis, Geometry & Algorithmics

Erwin Engeler (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

V, 100 Seiten

2011 | 1. Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1993
Springer Berlin (Verlag)
978-3-642-78054-7 (ISBN)

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This book appeared about ten years ago in Gennan. It started as notes for a course which I gave intermittently at the ETH over a number of years. Following repeated suggestions, this English translation was commissioned by Springer; they were most fortunate in finding translators whose mathemati cal stature, grasp of the language and unselfish dedication to the essentially thankless task of rendering the text comprehensible in a second language, both impresses and shames me. Therefore, my thanks go to Dr. Roberto Minio, now Darmstadt and Professor Charles Thomas, Cambridge. The task of preparing a La'JEX-version of the text was extremely daunting, owing to the complexity and diversity of the symbolisms inherent in the various parts of the book. Here, my warm thanks go to Barbara Aquilino of the Mathematics Department of the ETH, who spent tedious but exacting hours in front of her Olivetti. The present book is not primarily intended to teach logic and axiomat ics as such, nor is it a complete survey of what was once called "elementary mathematics from a higher standpoint". Rather, its goal is to awaken a certain critical attitude in the student and to help give this attitude some solid foun dation. Our mathematics students, having been drilled for years in high-school and college, and having studied the immense edifice of analysis, regrettably come away convinced that they understand the concepts of real numbers, Euclidean space, and algorithm.

I. The Continuum.-
1 What Are the Real Numbers?.-
2 Language as Part of Mathematics.-
3 Elementary Theory of Real Numbers.-
4 Non-Standard Analysis.-
5 Axiom of Choice and Continuum Hypothesis.- II. Geometry.-
1 Space and Mathematics.-
2 Axiomatization by Means of Coordinates.-
3 Metatheoretical Questions and Methods in Elementary Geometry.-
4 Geometric Constructions.- III. Algorithmics.-
1 What is an Algorithm?.-
2 The Existence of Combinatory Algebras: Combinatory Logic.-
3 Concrete Combinatory Algebras.-
4 Lambda Calculus.-
5 Computability and Combinatorss.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.12.2011
Übersetzer	C.B. Thomas
Zusatzinfo	V, 100 p.
Verlagsort	Berlin
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	183 g
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Analysis
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geometrie / Topologie
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Logik / Mengenlehre
Schlagworte	Algorithmics • Algorithmik • Analysis • Calculus • computational theory • Geometrie • Geometry • metamathematics • Metamathematik • non-standard analysis • Proof
ISBN-10	3-642-78054-7 / 3642780547
ISBN-13	978-3-642-78054-7 / 9783642780547
Zustand	Neuware