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Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 1974

ISBN (Hardback): 9789048183289

Full citation:

Jean Piaget, Evert W. Beth, Mathematical epistemology and psychology, Berlin, Springer, 1974

Mathematical epistemology and psychology

Jean PiagetEvert W. Beth

Contents

Mathematical reasoning cannot be analysed by traditional syllogistics

6-23

The psychological interpretation of mathematical reasoning

24-35

The logicist tradition

36-85

Strict demonstration and heuristic procedures

86-100

Intuitive structures and formalised mathematics

101-113

"Thinking machines" and mathematical thought

114-126

Lessons of the history of the relations between logic and psychology

137-162

General psychological problems of logico-mathematical thought

163-190

General psychological problems of logico-mathematical thought

191-225

The psychological problems of "pure" thought

226-258

Some convergences between formal and genetic analyses

259-280

Epistemological problems with logical and psychological relevance

281-303

General conclusions

305-312