{"product_id":"the-great-math-war","title":"The Great Math War","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eThe Great Math War\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003eJason Socrates Bardi\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9781541605008\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eBasic Books\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e2025\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003eHardcover\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eNew from the publisher\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eA stirring account of the mathematicians who went looking for the bedrock philosophical foundations of their field and witnessed a house of cards collapse instead \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e As the nineteenth century ended, mathematicians were celebrating a century of triumphs that--surprisingly--made clear how little they knew: What is the nature of infinity? Is math free from self-contradiction? And what does math have to do with reality? This was the Foundational Crisis in mathematics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In \u003ci\u003eThe Great Math War, \u003c\/i\u003e Jason Socrates Bardi tells the story of three competing efforts by mathematicians to resolve it--and the firefight that ensued. Bertrand Russell thought we could achieve certainty if we treated math as an extension of logic. David Hilbert believed redemption lay in accepting mathematics as a formal game of arbitrary rules, no different from the moves and pieces in chess. And L. E. J. Brouwer argued math is entirely rooted in human intuition--and that math is not based on logic but rather logic is based on math. It was a bitter struggle, intellectually and personally, as the three vied to set the course for mathematics in the twentieth century. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Set against the backdrop of international warfare unfolding alongside it, \u003ci\u003eThe Great Math War \u003c\/i\u003ebrings the Foundational Crisis to radiant life--and shows how it indelibly shaped twentieth-century intellectual life.\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Basic Books","offers":[{"title":"The Great Math War | Jason Socrates Bardi | Hardcover | 9781541605008 | New | Science \u0026 Math 1689106","offer_id":50808061264130,"sku":"1689106","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/91fLnG2KQAL.jpg?v=1792459001","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/the-great-math-war","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}