Doing mathematics : convention, subject, calculation, analogy / / Martin H. Krieger
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| Autore: |
Krieger Martin H
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| Titolo: |
Doing mathematics : convention, subject, calculation, analogy / / Martin H. Krieger
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| Pubblicazione: | River Edge, NJ, : World Scientific, c2003 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (472p. ) : illustrations |
| Disciplina: | 510 |
| Soggetto topico: | Mathematics - Research |
| Note generali: | Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 401-433) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Convention: How Means and Variances are Entrenched as Statistics; Subject: The Fields of Topology; Appendix: The Two-Dimensional Ising Model of a Ferromagnet; Calculation: Strategy, Structure, and Tactics in Applying Classical Analysis; Analogy: A Syzygy Between a Research Program in Mathematics and a Research Program in Physics, Each of Which is Itself an Analogy; Mathematics in Concreto. |
| Sommario/riassunto: | A discussion of ways of doing mathematical work. It argues that the conventions we adopt, the subject areas we delimit, what we can prove and calculate about the physical world, and the analogies that work for mathematicians - all depend on mathematics, what will work out and what won't. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Doing mathematics |
| ISBN: | 1-281-93585-9 |
| 9786611935856 | |
| 981-279-548-0 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910822789503321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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