Auguste Comte opened his vast positive philosophy with mathematics, ‘the most ancient and the most perfect of the sciences.’ The Philosophy of Mathematics, translated from the opening books of the Cours de philosophie positive, surveys the whole territory as Comte’s system saw it: the calculus of values and functions, geometry, and rational mechanics, each placed in his famous hierarchy of the sciences.
It is philosophy of mathematics on the grand nineteenth-century scale — confident, architectural, and historically fascinating. Download the free EPUB and see the queen of the sciences through positivism’s eyes.