The Modernist Transformation of Mathematics Jeremy Gray ... Languages for mathematics and the language of mathematics in a world of nations, in Mathematics Unbound: The Evolution of an International Mathematical Community, 1800–1945, ...
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.
... eyes of the Spiritualists, as many of its detractors argued. In Rewriting the Soul, Hacking argues that the concept of schizophrenia is predicated on memory becoming an object of scientific speculation. In his elegant formulation, he ...
"Plato's Ghost examines the Spiritualist movement as the legacy of European esoteric speculation, particularly Platonic ideals, transformed on a new continent."--Jacket cover.
Nilofer Kaul presents these moments and explores the complex reasons behind them in a stunning debut work that questions the heart of analytic practice.
... Plato's Ghost is an absorbing and highly personal meditation on the positive and negative linkages that promote or stunt personality development, and the role of language in advancing or disguising truthful links. The book is wide ...