I principi della matematica

Despite its title, this is NOT a math book, at least in the conventional definition of the term. It is indeed true that the subject matter of the book is indeed mathematics, but it neither teaches the reader any math nor assumes that the reader knows much math. At first glance, it seems to explore t Leggi tutto

Bertrand Russell's greatest pieces of philosophical writing could probably be said to be "The Principles of Mathematics", "On Denoting" and with Alfred North Whitehead "Principia Mathematica". There is however one sense in which it could be said that the russellian magnum opus is The Principles of M Leggi tutto

Excellent book

This is Russell's attempt to reach a wider audience to explain his and A.N. Whitehead's work "Principia Mathematica" a three-volume work trying to ground mathematics in symbolic logic as a foundation. I own a used set of those three volumes and it requires patience that I don't have to go through t