Space, Number, and Geometry from Helmholtz to Cassirer By Francesca BiagioliEnglish | PDF | 2016 | 258 Pages | ISBN : 3319317776 | 3.77 MB
This book offers a reconstruction of the debate on non-Euclidean geometry in neo-Kantianism between the second half of the nineteenth century and the first decades of the twentieth century. Kant famously characterized space and time as a priori forms of intuitions, which lie at the foundation of mathematical knowledge.