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Great feuds in mathematics, ten of the liveliest disputes ever, Hal Hellman

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Great feuds in mathematics, ten of the liveliest disputes ever, Hal Hellman
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eng
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 229-242) and index
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index present
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Adult, Follett Library Resources
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non fiction
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Great feuds in mathematics
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bibliography
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Hal Hellman
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ten of the liveliest disputes ever
Summary
Profiles feuds between such figures as Gerolamo Cardano and Tartaglia, Pierre de Fermat and Ren? Descartes, Sir Isaac Newton and Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, and David Hilbert and L. E. J. Brouwer, discussing their respective arguments, their motivation, and the mathematical legacies of the discoveries over which they fought
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Tartaglia versus Cardano. Solving cubic equations -- Descartes versus Fermat. Analytic geometry and optics -- Newton versus Leibniz. Credit for the calculus -- Bernoulli versus Bernoulli. Sibling rivalry of the highest order -- Sylvester versus Huxley. Ivory tower or real world? -- Kronecker versus Cantor. Mathematical humbug -- Borel versus Zermelo. The "notorious axiom" -- Poincar? versus Russell. The logical foundations of mathematics -- Hilbert versus Brouwer. Formalism versus intuitionism -- Absolutists/platonists versus fallibilists/constructionists. Are mathematical advances discoveries or inventions?
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