Philosophy of Mathematics

by Stephen F. Barker

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Genres: Philosophy, Mathematics

111 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 1964

About the author

Stephen Francis Barker is an American philosopher of mathematics, a professor emeritus of philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and a former faculty member at the University of Southern California, the University of Virginia, and Ohio State University.

Barker did his undergraduate studies at Swarthmore College and earned a doctorate from Harvard University in 1954. While at Harvard, he won the Bechtel Prize in 1951 for his essay, "A Study of Phenomenalism". As a young instructor at the University of Southern California, Harvard awarded him the George Santayana Fellowship for the academic year 1954–55. He joined the Johns Hopkins faculty in 1964.

He has served as a visiting professor at Berkeley, Harvard, and Swarthmore.

Reviews

[fhale · Rating 4 out of 5]

fermat'nın son teoreminin (kabaca: x^n+y^n=z^n denkleminin n>2 tam sayıları için sağlanamayacak olması) kanıtlanmadığı "ve yakınlarda kanıtlanacağının düşünülmediği" zamanlardan bir matematik felsefesi tanıtımı. ilk kısmı sıkıcı derecede öklid geometrisini ve civar tartışmaları bahis ederken gidişin heyecanlandığı kısımlarda da ilerlemeye kitabın hacmi elvermiyor. yine de bu 2. kısım böyle kısaca çok başarılı ele alınmış, duruyor.
1 şey, kitabın türkçe çevirisi tam anlamıyla zordu. dolayısıyla en başlardan ingilizce pdf'inden devam etmeyi, arada bir de karşılaştırmalı gitmeyi tercih ettim.
mesela bazı kelimeler:
actual: edimsel conclusion: vargı argumantation: uslamlama rational: ussal ...

[Ayush Bhat · Rating 3 out of 5]

When this book starts getting interesting, soon you will realize that it's about to end lol

[J. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty good, but really just an introduction. This seems targeted towards people with little-to-no math background: it spends a lot of time discussing the basics of mathematical methodology, as opposed to the big 19th and 20th century debates.

[Katarina Milojevic · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book is wonderful! This helped me to understand main problems in philosophy of mathematics. Whole book is connected and you can easily understand movement of thought in this field.

[Vanja Đorđević · Rating 5 out of 5]

Divna divna poljupci šefa

[Ehsan Ebrahimian · Rating 3 out of 5]

من ترجمه احمد بیرشک (چاپ 1349) رو خوندم به خاطر قدیمی بودن لحن کتاب خوندنش سخت بود اما از نظر اطلاعات تاریخی و تمایز دقیقی که بین مکاتب مختلف در فلسفه ریاضی داشت کاملا آموزنده بود.