Footnote:

Of my own recent work I can mention the following, relevant items:

  1. Leo Corry, "Axiomatics, Empiricism, and Anschauung in Hilbert's Conception of Geometry: Between Arithmetic and General Relativity". To appear in: Jeremy Gray and José Ferreirós (eds.) The Architecture of Modern Mathematics: Essays in History and Philosophy of Mathematics, Oxford, Oxford University Press. (Forthcoming: 2006) [Electronically available at http://www.tau.ac.il/~corry/publications/articles/Hilbert%20OUP.html]

  2. Leo Corry, Hilbert and the Axiomatization of Physics (1898-1918): From "Grundlagen der Geometrie" to "Grundlagen der Physik", Dordrecht, Kluwer (2004). ARCHIMEDES: New Studies in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Vol. 10.

  3. Leo Corry, "The Empiricist Roots of Hilbert’s Axiomatic Method", in Vincent F. Hendricks et al. (eds.) Proof Theory: History and Philosophical Significance, Dordrecht, Kluwer (2000): pp. 35-54. [Electronically available at http://www.tau.ac.il/~corry/publications/articles/roots.html]

 

Calculating the Limits of Poetic License:
Fictional Narrative and the History of Mathematics

Leo Corry - Tel Aviv University