The discovery of the class paradoxes, initiated a period of intense research into the foundations of mathematics. This book examines this foundational endeavour... » 

The discovery of the class paradoxes, initiated a period of intense research into the foundations of mathematics. This book examines this foundational endeavour from the discovery of the paradoxes to the present. Giaquinto investigates how succesful they were and how succesful they could be. He asks what our present perspective should be on the question of certainty in mathematics.(26) «