Plato's ghost: the modernist transformation of mathematics/
Jeremy Gray.
- Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c2008.
- viii, 515 p.: ill.; 27 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [473]-502) and index.
Modernism and mathematics -- Before modernism -- Mathematical modernism arrives -- Modernism avowed -- Faces of mathematics -- Mathematics, language, and philosophy -- After the war.
Plato's Ghost examines the development of mathematics from 1880 to 1920 as a modernist transformation similar to those in art, literature, and music. --from publisher description