Lectures on the Principles of Mathematics

William Ewald and Wilfried Sieg
Additional contact information
William Ewald: University of Pennsylvania, Law School
Wilfried Sieg: Carnegie Mellon University, Department of Philosophy

Chapter Chapter 1 in David Hilbert's Lectures on the Foundations of Arithmetic and Logic 1917-1933, 2013, pp 31-272 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The following lectures, delivered during the Winter Semester 1917/18, are a pivotal event in the development of mathematical logic and mark the start of Hilbert1#x2019;s long and fruitful collaboration with Paul Bernays. Towards the end of his lectures on set theory in the preceding Summer Semester, Hilbert had stated (p. 146), 1#x2018;I hope to be able to explore a foundation for logic more deeply next semester1#x2019;.1 Those earlier lectures had been concerned with the mathematical articulation of set theory and with the prospects for a settheoretic reduction of mathematics. For Chapter IV of the set theory course, Hilbert had announced an enticing and enigmatic title: 1#x2018;Applications of Set Theory to Mathematical Logic1#x2019;. The lectures, however, did not reach the topic of logic proper, and give no hint of the approach Hilbert began exploring a few months later.

Date: 2013
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-540-69444-1_1

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9783540694441

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69444-1_1

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().