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Titolo: | The space of mathematics : philosophical, epistemological, and historical explorations / / edited by Javier Echeverria, Andoni Ibarra, Thomas Mormann |
Pubblicazione: | Berlin ; ; New York : , : W. de Gruyter, , 1992 |
Edizione: | Reprint 2012 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (440 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina: | 510 |
Soggetto topico: | Mathematics - Philosophy |
Mathematics - History | |
Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
Classificazione: | CC 2600 |
Altri autori: | EcheverríaJavier IbarraAndoni MormannThomas <1951-> |
Note generali: | Rev. papers presented at a symposium on structures in mathematical theories, held in Sept. 1990 in Donostia/San Sebastian, Spain. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introductory afterthoughts -- The Protean Character of Mathematics -- Categories of Space and of Quantity -- Structural Analogies Between Mathematical and Empirical Theories -- Reduction and Explanation: Science vs. Mathematics -- Reality, Truth, and Confirmation in Mathematics – Reflections on the Quasi-Empiricist Programme -- Tacit Knowledge in Mathematical Theory -- Structure-Similarity as a Cornerstone of the Philosophy of Mathematics -- Applying Mathematics and the Indispensability Argument -- Mathematical Structures and Physical Necessity -- The Role of Mathematics in Physical Science -- The Status of Set-theoretic Axioms in Empirical Theories -- Suppes Predicates for Classical Physics -- Mathematics in Philosophy -- Are There Revolutions in Mathematics? -- Observations, Problems and Conjectures in Number Theory – The History of the Prime Number Theorem -- Historical Aspects of the Foundations of Error Theory -- A Structuralist View of Lagrange’s Algebraic Analysis and the German Combinatorial School -- Constructivism and Objects of Mathematical Theory -- Turing’s “Oracle”: From Absolute to Relative Computability – and Back -- Computers and Mathematics: The Search for a Discipline of Computer Science -- Theories and the Flow of Information -- Structuralism and Scientific Discovery -- Towards a Typology of Intertheoretical Relations -- Index of Names -- 423-424 |
Titolo autorizzato: | The space of mathematics |
ISBN: | 3-11-087029-0 |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910464778403321 |
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