A Pure and Perfect World.
The article focuses on the philosopher Bertrand Russell's inclination towards mathematical reasoning. He expressed deep reservations about Euclidean geometry, which begins with a few axioms, statements one just has to accept as true. When informed of the newly discovered alternative non-Euclidean ge...
| Publicado en: | Introducing Bertrand Russell pp. 8 - 10 |
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| Formato: | Artículo |
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Icon Books
8/ 1/2002
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| Sumario: | The article focuses on the philosopher Bertrand Russell's inclination towards mathematical reasoning. He expressed deep reservations about Euclidean geometry, which begins with a few axioms, statements one just has to accept as true. When informed of the newly discovered alternative non-Euclidean geometries, he perhaps had been right to refrain his assent to Euclidean geometry. Mathematics afforded Russell a pure and perfect world into which he could retreat, the article notes. |
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