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The principles of mathematics.[Definition of pure mathematics -- The ten primitive propositions -- The Calculus o f Classes -- Three new indefinables -- The relation of an individual to its class -- The notion of such that -- Relation to propositional calculus -- The Calculus of Relations -- The logic of relations essential to mathematics -- Definition of distance -- Measurement of distances -- Infinity and continuity -- The supposed contradictions of infinity have been resolved -- Correlation of series -- Independent series and series by correlation -- New primitive propositions -- Mathematical and philosophical definitions -- Peano's indefinables -- Elementary definitions -- Peano's primitive propositions -- Negation and disjunction]

The principles of mathematics.[Definition of pure mathematics -- The ten primitive propositions -- The Calculus o f Classes -- Three new indefinables -- The relation of an individual to its class -- The notion of such that -- Relation to propositional calculus -- The Calculus of Relations -- The logic of relations essential to mathematics -- Definition of distance -- Measurement of distances -- Infinity and continuity -- The supposed contradictions of infinity have been resolved -- Correlation of series -- Independent series and series by correlation -- New primitive propositions -- Mathematical and philosophical definitions -- Peano's indefinables -- Elementary definitions -- Peano's primitive propositions -- Negation and disjunction]

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The principles of mathematics.[Definition of pure mathematics -- The ten primitive propositions -- The Calculus o f Classes -- Three new indefinables -- The relation of an individual to its class -- The notion of such that -- Relation to propositional calculus -- The Calculus of Relations -- The logic of relations essential to mathematics -- Definition of distance -- Measurement of distances -- Infinity and continuity -- The supposed contradictions of infinity have been resolved -- Correlation of series -- Independent series and series by correlation -- New primitive propositions -- Mathematical and philosophical definitions -- Peano's indefinables -- Elementary definitions -- Peano's primitive propositions -- Negation and disjunction]

by Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970

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New York : W.W. Norton, 1980, 1938., 1980. Very Good. xxxix, 534 p. : ill. ; 19 cm. ; LC: QA9; Dewey: 510.1 ; ISBN: 0393002497 (pbk.) :; 9780393002492 (pbk.) ; OCLC: 11741484 ; pictorial stiff paper wrappers ; Contents: Definition of pure mathematics -- The ten primitive propositions -- The Calculus o f Classes -- Three new indefinables -- The relation of an individual to its class -- The notion of such that -- Relation to propositional calculus -- The Calculus of Relations -- The logic of relations essential to mathematics -- Definition of distance -- Measurement of distances -- Infinity and continuity -- The supposed contradictions of infinity have been resolved -- Correlation of series -- Independent series and series by correlation -- New primitive propositions -- Mathematical and philosophical definitions -- Peano's indefinables -- Elementary definitions -- Peano's primitive propositions -- Negation and disjunction -- Existence and the nullclass -- Asserted and unasserted propositions -- Inference does not require two premisses - - Formal implication is to be interpreted extensionally -- A formal implication is a single propositional function not a relation of two -- Assertions -- Formal implication involved in rules of inference -- Terms -- Things and concepts -- Concepts a s such and as terms -- Conceptual diversity -- All verbs except perhaps is express relations -- Relations per se and relating relations -- Relations are not particularized by their terms -- Connection with subjectpredicate propositions -- Denoting concepts obtained from predicates -- Extensional account of all every any a and some -- Intensional account of the same -- The difference between all every etc lies in the objects denoted not in the way of denoting them -- The notion of the and definition -- The notion of the and identity -- Meaning of class -- Intensional and extensional genesis of classes -- The notion of and -- All men is not analyzable into all and men -- There are null class-concepts but there is no null class -- The class as one except when it has one term is distinct from the class as many -- Every any and some each denote one object but an ambiguous one -- The relation of inclusion between classes -- The contradiction -- Prepositional -- The variable -- Relations - - The contradiction -- Number -- Definition of cardinal numbers -- Addition and multiplication -- Finite and infinite -- Theory of finite numbers -- Addition of terms and addition of classes -- Whole and part -- Infinite wholes -- Ratios and fractions -- The meaning of magnitude -- The range of quantity -- Numbers as expressing magnitudes: measurement -- Zero -- Infinity, the infintesimal and continuity -- The genesis of series -- The meaning of order -- Asymmetrical relations -- Difference of sense and difference of sign -- On the difference between open and closed series -- Progressions and ordinal numbers -- Dedekind's theory of number -- Distance -- The correlation of series -- Real numbers -- Limits and irrational numbers -- Cantor' s first definition of continuity -- Ordinal continuity -- Transfinite cardinals -- Transfinite ordinals -- The infinitesimal calculus -- The inifinitesimal and the improper infinite -- Philosophical arguments concerning the infinitesimal -- The philosophy of the continuum -- The philosophy of the infinite -- Dimensions and complex numbers -- Projective geometry -- Descriptive geometry -- Metrical geometry -- Relation of metrical to projective and descriptive geometry -- Definitions of various spaces -- The continuity of space -- Logical arguments against points -- Kant's theory of space -- Matter -- Motion -- Causality -- Definition of a dynamical world -- Newton's laws of motion -- Absolute and relative motion -- Hertz' dynamics -- The logical and arithmetical doctrines of Frege -- The doctrine of types. ; store stamps ; clipped corner on front ep ; VG

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