SUO: Re: CG: Foundations of mathematics
Graham Shutt wrote:
>For those of you interested in a comprehensive history of late nineteenth-
>and early twentieth-century efforts to come to an understanding of
>mathematical logic and its relation to mathematics, see:
>
>Grattan-Guinness, Ivor. The Search for Mathematical Roots, 1870-1940:
> Logics, Set Theories and the Foundations of Mathematics from
> Cantor through Russell to Goedel. Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton
> University Press, 2000.
For Peirce's own presentation of his existential graphs and
related topics, see his MS 514 with my commentary that relates
it to what else was happening at the same time:
http://www.bestweb.net/~sowa/peirce/ms514.htm
This is a good tutorial on Peirce's rules of inference as
applied to EGs (and with minor modifications to CGs).
John Sowa