Great feuds in mathematics : ten of the liveliest disputes ever /
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Hoboken, N.J. :
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c2006.
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Table of Contents:
- Tartaglia versus Cardano. Solving cubic equations
- Descartes versus Fermat. Analytic geometry and optics
- Newton versus Leibniz. Credit for the calculus
- Bernoulli versus Bernoulli. Sibling rivalry of the highest order
- Sylvester versus Huxley. Ivory tower or real world?
- Kronecker versus Cantor. Mathematical insanity
- Borel versus Zermelo. The "notorious axiom"
- Poincar versus Russell. The logical foundations of mathematics
- Hilbert versus Brouwer. Formalism versus intuitionism
- Absolutists/platonists versus fallibilists/constructionists. Are mathematical advances discoveries or inventions?
