Reverse Mathematics: Proofs from the Inside Out

by John Stillwell

Book Overview

This book presents reverse mathematics to a general mathematical audience for the first time. Reverse mathematics is a new field that answers some old questions. In the two thousand years that mathematicians have been deriving theorems from axioms, it has often been asked: which axioms are needed to prove a given theorem? Only in the last two hundred years have some of these questions been answered, and only in the last forty years has a systematic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691177171
• ISBN13: 9780691177175
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.3"