Download or read book From Kant to Hilbert Volume 1 written by William Bragg Ewald and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1996 with total page 695 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This two-volume work provides an overview of this important era of mathematical research through a carefully chosen selection of articles. They provide an insight into the foundations of each of the main branches of mathematics - algebra, geometry, number theory, analysis, logic, and set theory - with narratives to show how they are linked.