Mathematics

Dated Sep 17, 2018; last modified on Mon, 05 Sep 2022

contains 12 lectures: numbers, rigour, infinity, geometry, proof, computability, incompleteness, and set theory. Reminds me of COS 340, but the philosophical context could help me see the content differently.

Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematics. Joel David Hamkins. jdh.hamkins.org . Sep 7, 2021. Accessed Sep 7, 2021.

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