Reverse mathematics: proofs from the inside out
This text presents reverse mathematics to a general mathematical audience for the first time. Reverse mathematics is a new field that answers some old questions. In the 2000 years that mathematicians have been deriving theorems from axioms, it has often been asked: which axioms are needed to prove a given theorem? Only in the last 200 years have some of these questions been answered, and only in the last 40 years has a systematic approach been developed.
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- Full title :Reverse mathematics : proofs from the inside out / John Stillwell.
Summary
This text presents reverse mathematics to a general mathematical audience for the first time. Reverse mathematics is a new field that answers some old questions. In the 2000 years that mathematicians have been deriving theorems from axioms, it has often been asked: which axioms are needed to prove a given theorem? Only in the last 200 years have some of these questions been answered, and only in the last 40 years has a systematic approach been developed.
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- Publication Date:2020.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication:Princeton
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2020.
Notes
Previously issued in print: 2018.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xiii, 182 pages) : : illustrations (black and white).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9781400889037, 1400889030
- oclc:on1155499936
- LC Classification:QA9.25
- Dewey Decimal:511.3
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