{"product_id":"kline-morris-mathematics-the-loss-of-certainty-matematika-utrata-opredelennosti-1984-first-russian-edition","title":"Kline, Morris. Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty (Matematika. Utrata opredelennosti). 1984. First Russian edition","description":"\u003cp\u003eКлайн, Морис. Математика. Утрата определенности \/ перевод с английского Ю. А. Данилова ; под редакцией, с предисловием и примечаниями доктора физико-математических наук, профессора И. М. Яглома.\u003cbr\u003eМосква : издательство \"Мир\", 1984. 448 страниц, иллюстрации ; около 22 см.\u003cbr\u003eТвердый переплет. Тираж 50 000 экземпляров.\u003cbr\u003eПереплет очень хорошее: чистый, без потертостей, минимальные точечные следы на задней сторонке. Блок очень хорошее: крепкий, страницы чистые, текст полный.\u003cbr\u003e***\u003cbr\u003eKline, Morris. Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty \/ translated from the English by Yu. A. Danilov ; edited, with a foreword and notes, by I. M. Yaglom, Doctor of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Professor. First Russian edition.\u003cbr\u003eMoscow : Mir Publishing House, 1984. 448 pp., illustrations ; approx. 22 cm.\u003cbr\u003eHardcover. Print run of 50,000 copies.\u003cbr\u003eBinding very good: clean, unworn, minimal pinpoint marks on the rear board. Text block very good: firm, leaves clean, text complete.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe first Russian edition of Morris Kline's widely read account of the twentieth-century crisis in the philosophical foundations of mathematics, first published in English by Oxford University Press in 1980. Kline, professor emeritus of mathematics at New York University's Courant Institute and a prolific historian and popularizer of mathematics, traces the discipline's long-held claim to absolute certainty from Greek antiquity through the disruptive discoveries of non-Euclidean geometry, the paradoxes of set theory, and Godel's incompleteness theorems, arguing that mathematics, far from being a body of eternal truths, is a human intellectual construction whose foundations remain genuinely unsettled. The Soviet edition was entrusted to Isaak Moiseevich Yaglom, one of the most respected Soviet popularizers of mathematics and a prolific author in his own right, whose editorial preface situates Kline's book within the broader landscape of Western popular writing about mathematics, comparing it explicitly to Courant and Robbins's \"What Is Mathematics?\" and to the essay collection assembled from Scientific American, and singling out \"Mathematics: The Loss of Certainty\" as, in his judgment, the most successful of Kline's books both for its literary and pedagogical qualities and for the scale of debate it provoked. The book remains, four decades after its first appearance, one of the standard accessible accounts of the foundational crisis for readers outside professional mathematical logic.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Stanza Rare Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44664988598314,"sku":null,"price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/6359\/5306\/files\/IMG_1435_94412d2d-bfec-494f-87b4-4c451b168b1d.jpg?v=1786450816","url":"https:\/\/stanzararebooks.com\/products\/kline-morris-mathematics-the-loss-of-certainty-matematika-utrata-opredelennosti-1984-first-russian-edition","provider":"Stanza Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}