PASCH, MORITZ.

Mathematik am Ursprung. Gesammelte Abhandlungen über Grundfragen der Mathematik.

Leipzig, Felix Meiner, 1927. Orig. printed wrappers. Frontwrapper loose. Small loss to top of backstrip. (4),149 pp. From the library of the Danish logician and philosopher Jørgen Jørgensen with his name on frontwrapper.

First edition of this collection of 7 of Pasch's most importent work on axiomatics and geometry.

"Pasch initiated the axiomatic method, although the foundational developments of his time were against this point of view. Thus Cantor's striking discoveries were based, from an axiomatic point of view, on nothing... As late as 1903 Frege poked fun of at the axiomatic method as presented in Hilbert's "Grundlagen der Geometrie....particularly Peano continued Pasch's work. In 1889 Peano published both his exposition of geometry, following Pasch, and his treatment of number...Pasch played a crucial role in the innovation of the axiomatic methode. This method, with contributions from logic and algebra, is a central feature of twentieth-century mathematics." (DSB).

Order-nr.: 47944