Ernst Schröder on Algebra and Logic
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This volume offers English translations of three early works by Ernst Schröder (1841-1902), a mathematician and logician whose philosophical ruminations and pathbreaking contributions to algebraic logic attracted the admiration and ire of figures such as Dedekind, Frege, Husserl, and C. S. Peirce. Today he still engages the sympathetic interest of logicians and philosophers.
The works translated record Schröder’s journey out of algebra into algebraic logic and document his transformation of George Boole’s opaque and unwieldy logical calculus into what we now recognize as Boolean algebra. Readers interested in algebraic logic and abstract algebra can look forward to a tour of the early history of those fields with a guide who was exceptionally thorough, unfailingly honest, and deeply reflective.
This volume offers English translations of three early works by Ernst Schröder (1841-1902), a mathematician and logician whose philosophical ruminations and pathbreaking contributions to algebraic logic attracted the admiration and ire of figures such as Dedekind, Frege, Husserl, and C. S. Peirce. Today he still engages the sympathetic interest of logicians and philosophers.
The works translated record Schröder’s journey out of algebra into algebraic logic and document his transformation of George Boole’s opaque and unwieldy logical calculus into what we now recognize as Boolean algebra. Readers interested in algebraic logic and abstract algebra can look forward to a tour of the early history of those fields with a guide who was exceptionally thorough, unfailingly honest, and deeply reflective.
Gives English readers access to key texts in the early history of algebraic logic. Deepens our understanding of the intellectual milieu of figures such as Dedekind, Frege, Husserl, and C. S. Peirce Helps us see how Ernst Schröder’s innovations in logic were a natural extension of his work in abstract algebra
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“Ernst Schröder on Algebra and Logic should immediately become a key reference for everyone interested in the development of modern logic. Schröder’s early works are a good example of the close connection between mathematical problems and logical resources that characterized the final quarter of the nineteenth century. The careful study of these writings will not only enrich the field at large, but more specifically the scholarship on Frege and Peano.” (Joan Bertran-San-Millán, Philosophia Mathematica, July 24, 2024)
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