Monday, February 23, 2015

Review: Infinity and Truth


Infinity and Truth
Infinity and Truth by Chitat Chong

My rating: 3 of 5 stars



Based on the talks given at the Workshop on Infinity and Truth (Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore, 2011), the book brings together nine papers on the foundations of mathematics. This volume is largely thought-provoking and engaging in tackling questions formally unsolvable within ZFC, such as Projective Determinacy and the Continuum Hypothesis, and pondering if the foundations of mathematics lean to any one philosophical view...

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