In Praise of Mathematics by Alain Badiou HARDBACK 9781509512027

In Praise of Mathematics\nby Alain Badiou\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Alain Badiou\nTitle: In Praise of Mathematics\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Western philosophy from c 1800\nPublisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd\nPublication year: 2016\nISBN-13: 9781509512027\nISBN-10: 1509512020\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nWhy bother to praise mathematics when you claim, as Alain Badiou does, that philosophy is first and foremost a metaphysics of happiness, or else it\u2019s not worth an hour of trouble? What possible relationship can there be between mathematics and happiness? \nThat is precisely the issue at stake in this dialogue, which serves as a very accessible introduction to what mathematics is and an exploration of the crucial influence it has always exerted on the gr.