{"product_id":"9783642780547","title":"Foundations of Mathematics : Questions of Analysis, Geometry \u0026 Algorithmics (Reprint)","description":"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.- \u003cbr\u003e1 What Are the Real Numbers?.- \u003cbr\u003e2 Language as Part of Mathematics.- \u003cbr\u003e3 Elementary Theory of Real Numbers.- \u003cbr\u003e4 Non-Standard Analysis.- \u003cbr\u003e5 Axiom of Choice and Continuum Hypothesis.- II. Geometry.- \u003cbr\u003e1 Space and Mathematics.- \u003cbr\u003e2 Axiomatization by Means of Coordinates.- \u003cbr\u003e3 Metatheoretical Questions and Methods in Elementary Geometry.- \u003cbr\u003e4 Geometric Constructions.- III. Algorithmics.- \u003cbr\u003e1 What is an Algorithm?.- \u003cbr\u003e2 The Existence of Combinatory Algebras: Combinatory Logic.- \u003cbr\u003e3 Concrete Combinatory Algebras.- \u003cbr\u003e4 Lambda Calculus.- \u003cbr\u003e5 Computability and Combinatorss.","brand":"Springer Verlag","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49173087584483,"sku":"00000_00000_00000_00000","price":54.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/usa.kinokuniya.com\/ja\/products\/9783642780547","provider":"Books Kinokuniya USA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}