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Philosophia Mathematica Advance Access originally published online on July 1, 2006
Philosophia Mathematica 2006 14(3):352-362; doi:10.1093/philmat/nkl013
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Philosophia Mathematica (III), Vol. 14 No. 3 © The Author [2006]. Published by Oxford University Press. All rights reserved. For Permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org

Book Review

STEVE RUSS. The Mathematical Works of Bernard Bolzano. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004. Pp. xxx + 698. ISBN 0-19-853930-4.

Ali Behboud*

* Philosophisches Seminar der Universität Hamburg Von-Melle-Park 6, 20146 Hamburg, Germany ali.behboud@uni-hamburg.de

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In his book on The Mathematics of Great Amateurs Coolidge starts the chapter on Bolzano saying that he included Bolzano because it seemed interesting to him ‘that a man who was a remarkable pulpit orator, only removed from his chair for his political opinions, should have thought so far into the deepest problems of a science which he never taught in a professional capacity’ [Coolidge, 1990Go, p. 195]. In fact, considering Bolzano's poor health and his enormous productivity in his ‘professional areas’, the results, the breadth and the extent of this ‘great amateur's’ thoughts on mathematics, and its proper scientific presentation are simply astonishing. Even this new selection of more than 650 printed pages of text, well edited and translated by Steve Russ, represents only a part of Bolzano's legacy on mathematical topics: the complete German edition of Bolzano's writings, the Bernard Bolzano-Gesamtausgabe (Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt: Frommann-Holzboog, 1969– ) edited . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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