David Hilbert’s Lectures on the Foundations of Geometry 1891–1902

Download or read book David Hilbert’s Lectures on the Foundations of Geometry 1891–1902 written by Michael Hallett and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2004-05-17 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains six sets of notes for lectures on the foundations of geometry held by Hilbert in the period 1891-1902. It also reprints the first edition of Hilbert’s celebrated Grundlagen der Geometrie of 1899, together with the important additions which appeared first in the French translation of 1900. The lectures document the emergence of a new approach to foundational study and contain many reflections and investigations which never found their way into print.