TY - BOOK ID - 3469464 TI - The evolution of Principia mathematica : Bertrand Russell's manuscripts and notes for the second edition PY - 2011 SN - 9781107003279 9780511760181 9781139078351 1139078356 9781139080644 1139080644 1283112663 9781283112666 0511760183 110700327X 1107220718 9781107220713 9786613112668 6613112666 1139076086 9781139076081 1139082914 9781139082914 1139070347 9781139070348 PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - Mathematics KW - Logic, Symbolic and mathematical. KW - Mathématiques KW - Logique symbolique et mathématique KW - Philosophy. KW - Philosophie KW - Russell, Bertrand, KW - 510.6 KW - Algebra of logic KW - Logic, Universal KW - Mathematical logic KW - Symbolic and mathematical logic KW - Symbolic logic KW - Algebra, Abstract KW - Metamathematics KW - Set theory KW - Syllogism KW - Logic of mathematics KW - Mathematics, Logic of KW - 510.6 Mathematical logic KW - Mathématiques KW - Logique symbolique et mathématique KW - Logic, Symbolic and mathematical KW - Philosophy KW - Russell, Bertrand UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:3469464 AB - Originally published in 1910, Principia Mathematica led to the development of mathematical logic and computers and thus to information sciences. It became a model for modern analytic philosophy and remains an important work. In the late 1960s the Bertrand Russell Archives at McMaster University in Canada obtained Russell's papers, letters and library. These archives contained the manuscripts for the new Introduction and three Appendices that Russell added to the second edition in 1925. Also included was another manuscript, 'The Hierarchy of Propositions and Functions', which was divided up and re-used to create the final changes for the second edition. These documents provide fascinating insight, including Russell's attempts to work out the theorems in the flawed Appendix B, 'On Induction'. An extensive introduction describes the stages of the manuscript material on the way to print and analyzes the proposed changes in the context of the development of symbolic logic after 1910. ER -