Plato's ghost the modernist transformation of mathematics - Gray, Jeremy (Princeton University Press, 2008)
Modernism and mathematics -- Before modernism -- Mathematical modernism arrives -- Modernism avowed -- Faces of mathematics -- Mathematics, language, and psychology -- After the war
Includes bibliographical references (pages 473-502) and index
Plato's Ghost examines the development of mathematics from 1880 to 1920 as a modernist transformation similar to those in art, literature, and music. --from publisher description