Lot 526
Hilbert (David) Über das Unendliche, first edition, Berlin, 1925.
Hammer Price: £500
Description
Hilbert (David) Über das Unendliche, offprint from Mathematische Annalen 95. Bd., 2 Heft., first edition, bound together with green paper backstrip as issued, light toning to spine ends, otherwise a fine copy, 8vo, Berlin, 1925.
⁂ Rare offprint of this famous lecture that contains Hilbert's most detailed exposition of his proposal for the foundation of classical mathematics, which became known as Hilbert's Programme. "No one shall expel us from the paradise which Cantor has created for us," Hilbert famously declared in this lecture (p. 170).
Description
Hilbert (David) Über das Unendliche, offprint from Mathematische Annalen 95. Bd., 2 Heft., first edition, bound together with green paper backstrip as issued, light toning to spine ends, otherwise a fine copy, 8vo, Berlin, 1925.
⁂ Rare offprint of this famous lecture that contains Hilbert's most detailed exposition of his proposal for the foundation of classical mathematics, which became known as Hilbert's Programme. "No one shall expel us from the paradise which Cantor has created for us," Hilbert famously declared in this lecture (p. 170).
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