It was the wide and astonishing applicability of the discipline that attracted the bulk of the mathematical researchers of the day, with the result that peppers were turned out in great profusion with little concern regarding the very unsatisfactory foundations of the subject. The processes employed were justified largely on the ground that they worked, and it was in until the eighteenth century had almost elapsed, after a number of absurdities and contradictions had crept into mathematics, that mathematicians flit it was essential that the basis of their work be logically examined and rigorously established. The painstaking effort to place analysis on a logically rigor roust foundation was a natural reaction to the Pell, mell employment of intuition and formalism of the previous century. The task proved to be a dissect one, its various ramifications occupying the deter part of the next hundred years. A result of this careful work in the foundations of analysis was that it led to equally carful work in the foundations of all branches of mathematics and to the refinement of important concepts. Thus the function Idea itself had to be clarified, and such notions as limit, continuity , differentiability, and inerrability had to be very carefully and clearly defined. This task of refining the basic concepts of mathematics led, in intricate generalizations. Such concepts as space, dimension, and inerrability, to name only a few, underwent remarkable generalizations and abstraction A good part of the mathematics of the first half the twentieth century has been devoted to this sort of thing, until now generalizations and abstraction have become striking features of present-day mathematics. But some of these development have, in turn, brought about a fresh batch of paradoxical situations. The generalizations to transfinite numbers and the abstract study of sets have widened and deepened many branches of mathematics, but, at the same time, they have revealed some very disturbing paradoxes which appear to lie in the innermost depths of mathematics. Here is where we seem to be today, and it may be that the second half of the twentieth century will witness the resolution of these critical problems.
It was the wide and astonishing applicability of the discipline that attracted the bulk of the mathematical researchers of the day, with the result that peppers were turned out in great profusion with little concern regarding the very unsatisfactory foundations of the subject. The processes employed were justified largely on the ground that they worked, and it was in until the eighteenth century had almost elapsed, after a number of absurdities and contradictions had crept into mathematics, that mathematicians flit it was essential that the basis of their work be logically examined and rigorously established. The painstaking effort to place analysis on a logically rigor roust foundation was a natural reaction to the Pell, mell employment of intuition and formalism of the previous century. The task proved to be a dissect one, its various ramifications occupying the deter part of the next hundred years. A result of this careful work in the foundations of analysis was that it led to equally carful work in the foundations of all branches of mathematics and to the refinement of important concepts. Thus the function Idea itself had to be clarified, and such notions as limit, continuity , differentiability, and inerrability had to be very carefully and clearly defined. This task of refining the basic concepts of mathematics led, in intricate generalizations. Such concepts as space, dimension, and inerrability, to name only a few, underwent remarkable generalizations and abstraction A good part of the mathematics of the first half the twentieth century has been devoted to this sort of thing, until now generalizations and abstraction have become striking features of present-day mathematics. But some of these development have, in turn, brought about a fresh batch of paradoxical situations. The generalizations to transfinite numbers and the abstract study of sets have widened and deepened many branches of mathematics, but, at the same time, they have revealed some very disturbing paradoxes which appear to lie in the innermost depths of mathematics. Here is where we seem to be today, and it may be that the second half of the twentieth century will witness the resolution of these critical problems.
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