Description |
1 online resource (viii, 515 pages) : illustrations |
Physical Medium |
polychrome |
Description |
text file |
Contents |
Modernism and mathematics -- Before modernism -- Mathematical modernism arrives -- Modernism avowed -- Faces of mathematics -- Mathematics, language, and psychology -- After the war. |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-502) and index. |
Summary |
Plato's Ghost examines the development of mathematics from 1880 to 1920 as a modernist transformation similar to those in art, literature, and music. --from publisher description. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Mathematics -- History -- 19th century.
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Mathematics. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
19th century |
Subject |
Mathematics -- Philosophy.
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Mathematics -- Philosophy. |
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Aesthetics, Modern -- 19th century.
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Aesthetics, Modern. |
Chronological Term |
1800 - 1899 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Electronic books -- History -- Electronic books.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Gray, Jeremy, 1947- Plato's ghost. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2008 9780691136103 (DLC) 2007061027 (OCoLC)181517577 |
ISBN |
9781400829040 (electronic book) |
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1400829046 (electronic book) |
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1282458353 |
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9781282458352 |
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9780691136103 (alkaline paper) |
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0691136106 (alkaline paper) |
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