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The Principles of Mathematics
Overview
The Principles of Mathematics (PoM) is a 1903 book by Bertrand Russell, in which the author presented his famous paradox and argued his thesis that mathematics and logic are identical.
The book presents a view of the foundations of mathematics and Meinongianism and has become a classic reference. It reported on developments by Giuseppe Peano, Mario Pieri, Richard Dedekind, Georg Cantor, and others.
In 1905 Louis Couturat published a partial French translation that expanded the book's readership. In 1937 Russell prepared a new introduction saying, "Such interest as the book now possesses is historical, and consists in the fact that it represents a certain stage in the development of its subject." Further editions were published in 1938, 1951, 1996, and 2009.
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Philosophers who discussed The Principles of Mathematics
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- G. E. Moore
- Georg Cantor
- Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
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- Giuseppe Peano
- Analytic philosophy
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- Foundations of mathematics
- Erkenntnis
- Measurement
- The Times Literary Supplement
- Ivor Grattan-Guinness
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- Richard Dedekind
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- Theory of relativity
- Willard Van Orman Quine
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Place in the tradition
Part of Analytic philosophy.
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