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Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer
Franchella, Miriam
2016
Abstract
The Dutch mathematician Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer (1889-1966) is famous in topology due to some relevant theorems (like the fixed point theorem) and he is well known both in the history of mathematics and in philosophy as the father of intuitionism. What strongly characterizes his scientific production is the strict linking between his Weltanschauung and his project of a constructive mathematics. Namely, starting with a mystical viewpoint about life, Brouwer has realized his project of building mathematics independently of language and without applicative aims: it is as an exploitation of the potentialities of our intuition of time.
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Publisher
EUT Edizioni Università di Trieste
Source
Miriam Franchella, "Luitzen Egbertus Jan Brouwer", in "APhEx 13", 2016, pp. 37
Languages
it
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