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Graduates of this module are able to deal with selected topics in the history and philosophy of mathematics in a methodologically correct way and to present the results of this examination orally and in writing in a comprehensible way.

Advanced dealing with selected topics in the historic development of mathematics, the theory of science of mathematics as well as philosophical aspects of mathematics in an oral presentation and a written paper.

This semester we discuss topics from Philosophy of Mathematics.

• J. Neunhäuserer: Einführung in die Philosophie der Mathematik. Springer, 2019
• F. M. Brückler: Geschichte der Mathematik kompakt. Springer, 2017
  
• Ch. Tapp: An den Grenzen des Endlichen. Das Hilbertprogramm im Kontext von Formalismus und Finitismus. Springer. 2013