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Constructivism

R.L. Wilder’s Constructivist Account of Early 20th Century Mathematics

This is the second part of my piece on Raymond Louis Wilder (1896–1982) and his philosophical, historical and anthropological account of mathematics. I suggest that the reader refer back to the introduction to my ‘Raymond L. Wilder’s Anthropology of Mathematics: Platonism and Applied Mathematics’for Wilder’s biographical

Probability Theory

The Probabilistic Method

Maybe the most interesting proof method

Philosophy

Beginner’s Guide to Mathematical Constructivism

The foundational crisis in mathematics along with roughly four decades following it, was likely the most fertile period in the history of logic and studies in the foundations. After discovering the set-theoretic paradoxes, such as the paradox of the set of all sets, together with the logical ones, like Russell’