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The Continuous, the Discrete and the Infinitesimal in Philosophy and Mathematics

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Title/Author:	The Continuous, the Discrete and the Infinitesimal in Philosophy and Mathematics/ by John L. Bell.
Author:	Bell, John L.
Description:	XVII, 313 p. 55 illus.online resource. :
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Subject:	Mathematics—Philosophy. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-18707-1
ISBN:	9783030187071

The Continuous, the Discrete and the Infinitesimal in Philosophy and Mathematics
Bell, John L.

The Continuous, the Discrete and the Infinitesimal in Philosophy and Mathematics[electronic resource] /by John L. Bell. - 1st ed. 2019. - XVII, 313 p. 55 illus.online resource. - The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science, and Related Fields,821566-659X ;. - The Western Ontario Series in Philosophy of Science, A Series of Books in Philosophy of Science, Methodology, Epistemology, Logic, History of Science, and Related Fields,80.

Part I: The Continuous, the Discrete, and the Infinitesimal in the History of Thought -- Chapter 1. The Continuous and the Discrete in Ancient Greece, the Orient, and the European Middle Ages -- Chapter 2. The 16th and 17th Centuries: The Founding of the Infinitesimal Calculus -- Chapter 3. The 18th and Early 19th Centuries: The Age of Continuity -- Chapter 4. The Reduction of the Continuous to the Discrete in the 19th and early 20th Centuries -- Chapter 5. Dissenting Voices: Divergent Conceptions of the Continuum in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries -- Part II: Continuity and Infinitesimals in Today’s Mathematics -- Chapter 6. Topology -- Chapter 7. Category/Topos Theory -- Chapter 8. Nonstandard Analysis -- Chapter 9. The Constructive and Intuitionistic Continua -- Chapter 10. Smooth Infiniteimal Analysis/Synthetic Geometry.

This book explores and articulates the concepts of the continuous and the infinitesimal from two points of view: the philosophical and the mathematical. The first section covers the history of these ideas in philosophy. Chapter one, entitled ‘The continuous and the discrete in Ancient Greece, the Orient and the European Middle Ages,’ reviews the work of Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, and other Ancient Greeks; the elements of early Chinese, Indian and Islamic thought; and early Europeans including Henry of Harclay, Nicholas of Autrecourt, Duns Scotus, William of Ockham, Thomas Bradwardine and Nicolas Oreme. The second chapter of the book covers European thinkers of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: Galileo, Newton, Leibniz, Descartes, Arnauld, Fermat, and more. Chapter three, 'The age of continuity,’ discusses eighteenth century mathematicians including Euler and Carnot, and philosophers, among them Hume, Kant and Hegel. Examining the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the fourth chapter describes the reduction of the continuous to the discrete, citing the contributions of Bolzano, Cauchy and Reimann. Part one of the book concludes with a chapter on divergent conceptions of the continuum, with the work of nineteenth and early twentieth century philosophers and mathematicians, including Veronese, Poincaré, Brouwer, and Weyl. Part two of this book covers contemporary mathematics, discussing topology and manifolds, categories, and functors, Grothendieck topologies, sheaves, and elementary topoi. Among the theories presented in detail are non-standard analysis, constructive and intuitionist analysis, and smooth infinitesimal analysis/synthetic differential geometry. No other book so thoroughly covers the history and development of the concepts of the continuous and the infinitesimal. .

ISBN: 9783030187071

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-030-18707-1doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

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Mathematics—Philosophy.

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