Gnomes in the fog. The reception of Brouwer's intuitionism in the 1920s (Q1417132)

A detailed examination of the debate generated by the intuitionism of L. E. J. Brouwer. After setting the stage with a survey of the approaches of Kronecker, Borel, Baire, Lebesgue, and Poincaré, the author then recounts Brouwer's work through the early 1930s. The bulk of the book discusses the over 250 contemporaneous articles, books, lectures, and even radio broadcasts that responded to the foundational issues raised by Brouwer. Specifically, Hesseling examines the various views on the nature of mathematical existence and on the excluded middle. Contributions to the debate by Weyl, Hilbert, Fraenkel, Heyting, Gödel, and many others are analyzed.