Axiomatic Method and Category Theory

• Main Author: Rodin, Andrei (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science ; 364
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Epistemology.; Category theory (Mathematics).; Homological algebra.; Mathematical logic.; Category Theory, Homological Algebra.; Mathematical Logic and Foundations.

This volume explores the many different meanings of the notion of the axiomatic method, offering an insightful historical and philosophical discussion about how these notions changed over the millennia. The author, a well-known philosopher and historian of mathematics, first examines Euclid, who is...