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001 2005031916
003 DLC
005 20070807084613.0
008 051107s2006 nju b 001 0 eng
010 $a 2005031916
020 $a0471648779 (cloth : acid-free paper)
040 $aDLC$cDLC$dDLC
050 00 $aQA21$b.H45 2006
082 00 $a510$222
100 1 $aHellman, Hal,$d1927-
245 10 $aGreat feuds in mathematics :$bten of the liveliest disputes ever /$cHal Hellman.
260 $aHoboken, N.J. :$bJohn Wiley,$cc2006.
300 $avi, 250 p. ;$c24 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 $aTartaglia 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 insanity -- 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?
650 0 $aMathematics$xHistory.
650 0 $aMathematicians$xHistory.
856 41 $3Table of contents only$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip063/2005031916.html