Elegi Menggapai "Formalism as the Epistemological Foundation of Mathematics"

By Marsigit
Yogyakarta State University

The formalist school was founded by David Hilbert.

In his Grundlagen der Geometrίe (1899), Hilbert 1 had sharpened the mathematical method from the material axio¬matics of Euclid to the formal axίomatics of the present day.



The formalist point of view 2 is developed by Hilbert to meet the crisis caused by the paradoxes of set theory and the challenge