Overview: Provides a new approach to the philosophy of mathematics, rethinking the conceptual structure of mathematics.Presents a new perspective on key figures of modern mathematics, as Galois, Riemann, Noethe.This book is a philosophical study of mathematics, pursued by considering and relating two aspects of mathematical thinking and practice, especially in modern mathematics, which, having emerged around 1800, consolidated around 1900 and extends to our own time, while also tracing both aspects to earlier periods, beginning with the ancient Greek mathematics. The first aspect is conceptual
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