Download or read book Frege's Theorem written by Richard G. Heck and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2011-09-29 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Heck explores a key idea in the work of the great philosopher/logician Gottlob Frege: that the axioms of arithmetic can be logically derived from a single principle. Heck uses the theorem to explore historical, philosophical, and technical issues in philosophy of mathematics and logic, relating them to key areas of contemporary philosophy.