Axiomatics: Mathematical Thought and High Modernism Steingart Alma
The first history of postwar mathematics, offering a new interpretation of the rise of abstraction and axiomatics in the twentieth century.Why did abstraction dominate American art, social science,…
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The first history of postwar mathematics, offering a new interpretation of the rise of abstraction and axiomatics in the twentieth century.Why did abstraction dominate American art, social science, and natural science in the mid-twentieth century? Why, despite opposition, did abstraction and theoretical knowledge flourish across a diverse set of intellectual pursuits during the Cold War? In recovering the centrality of abstraction across a range of modernist projects in the United States, Alma Steingart brings mathematics back into the conversation about midcentury American intellectual thought. The expansion of mathematics in the aftermath of World War II, she demonstrates, was characterized by two opposing tendencies: research in pure mathematics became increasingly abstract and rarified, while research in applied mathematics and mathematical applications grew in
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