Synthetic Philosophy of Contemporary Mathematics
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Synthetic Philosophy of Contemporary Mathematics

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  Synthetic Philosophy of Contemporary Mathematics   Fernando Zalamea Urbanomic/SequenceDecember 2012; Second edition 2019Translated by Zachary Luke Fraser Paperback 115x175mm, 376pp. ISBN 978-0-9567750-1-6 Synthetic Philosophy of Contemporary Mathematics is a unique and unprecedented book, and a much needed one. Fernando Zalamea (Professor of Mathematics at the Universidad Nacional de Colombia) offers a synthetic perspective on the vast spectrum of contemporary mathematics, together with an analysis of the new philosophical problems originating therein. The book makes available to the inquisitive non-specialist the conceptual transformations and intellectual orientations of modern and contemporary mathematics, and their significance for speculative philosophical thought. The first part of the text discusses the specificity of modern (1830-1950) and contemporary (1950 to the present) mathematics, and offers an extensive review of how philosophy of mathematics addressed it (or failed to

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