Philosophy
Logicism, Formalism, and Intuitionism
The three main contemporary ways to understand the foundations of mathematics.
Philosophy
The three main contemporary ways to understand the foundations of mathematics.
Philosophy
Mathematical intuitionism (which is a subset of mathematical constructivism) has it (or had it) that mathematics is purely the result of the mental activities of human beings; not the discovery of mathematical entities which exist in an “objective” (or Platonic) realm. In terms of L. E. J. Brouwer’s original