Outlines of a Formalist Philosophy of Mathematics
Amsterdam: North-Holland Publishing Company, 1951. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [5], vi-vii, [2], 2-75, [1] pp. Flexible paper-covered boards replicating the design on the front panel and spine panel of the dust jacket (but omitting the list of series title on the rear panel). An early volume in the long-running Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics series. Series editors L. E. J. Brouwer, E. W. Beth, and A. Heyting. Slater 229. Curry was one of the best-known logicians of the mid-twentieth century and was a pioneer in the field of combinatory logic. The present work was originally prepared for the famed Unity of Science conference held in Cambridge, MA in September 1939 and formed the basis of the paper that Curry presented there. Near Fine / very near Fine. Item #00009997
A Near Fine book with a small sticker ghost on the front endpaper in a very near Fine presumably slightly later issue dust jacket (showing series titles from 1953 and 1954).
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