ABSTRACT

First published in 2000. This is Volume I of eight in the Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics series. Written in 1933, in The Nature of Mathematics offers a critical survey the author seeks to present a considered critical exposition of Principia Mathematica and to give supplementary accounts of the formalist and intuitionist doctrines in sufficient detail to lighten the paths of all who may be provoked to read the original papers.

chapter |6 pages

A Critical Survey

chapter |130 pages

Section I: Logistic

chapter |22 pages

Supplement A: Formalism

chapter |42 pages

Supplement B: Intuitionism