John,

The listing for you at Bristol -- http://www.maths.bris.ac.uk/~majpm/ --
returns an error message.

If you could give us a correct URL that would be good. If you want me to
upload your material to the Klein list file archive, send it to me at
lrf@....

Lance

JP Mayberry, Research Fellow,Department of Philosophy wrote:

> Dear Bob,
> I always read your contributions to the HM list with interest. If you
> don't understand Klein I suspect that a lot of his readers don't. I don't
> claim to have understood him either. But I have taken inspiration from
> what
> I have managed to glean from him.
> If you want to get an idea of what I took from him, go to the University
> of Bristol web site, then to the Philosopy and in my entry you can
> call up
> my web page. There you can access the preface and the first two
> chapters of
> my book. The preface will give you an idea of Klein's influence on me.
> The
> first chapter contains some general observations on what a foundation for
> mathematics should consist in, and the second an attempt to relate the
> modern notion of set to the classical notion of arithmos.
> It might be useful to start with the last chapter of Klein's book. The
> first section on Stevin is impenetrable to me, but the later ones are
> more
> accessible.
>
> John
>
> --On 25 November 2006 09:18 -0500 Robert Eldon Taylor
> <philologos@... <mailto:philologos%40mindspring.com>> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > JP Mayberry, Research Fellow,Department of Philosophy wrote:
> >> I was hoping the group would consider the later parts of his book, but
> >> the discussion seemed to get bogged down on Plato. I wrote a book on
> >> the foundations of mathematics which was greatly inspired by Klein's
> >> ideas about the development of the concept of number.
> >
> > I presume you refer to "The foundations of mathematics in the theory of
> > sets", Cambridge, 2000 (it's ok to plug your book here).
> >
> > If your book was inspired by Klein's ideas, you must have a clearer
> > understanding of what Klein was thinking than I do. Perhaps you could
> > give us a run down on what his book is all about. I read Klein
> > frequently, but with little or no understanding. He is useful to point
> > me to references and quotations, but when I read them, I do not see what
> > he is saying about them.
> >
> > I am by the way, not at all surprised the discussion bogged down -
> > almost all do.
> >
> > Regards,
> > Bob Taylor
> >
> >
>
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