Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics by Jeremy Gray

Plato's Ghost: The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics

Jeremy Gray

515 pages first pub 2008 (editions)

nonfiction history mathematics philosophy challenging informative slow-paced
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"Plato's Ghost" is the first book to examine the development of mathematics from 1880 to 1920 as a modernist transformation similar to those in art, literature, and music. Jeremy Gray traces the growth of mathematical modernism from its roots in p...

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