Gray, Jeremy, 1947-

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

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Mathematics--History--History.--Mathematics--18th century.
Mathematics--Philosophy.--18th century.
Aesthetics, Modern--19th century.

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