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Mathematics as a science of patterns / by Michael D. Resnik.
LIBRA QA8.4 .R473 1997
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Resnik, Michael D.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematics--Philosophy.
- Mathematics.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 285 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Clarendon ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1997.
- Summary:
- This book expounds a system of ideas about the nature of mathematics which Michael Resnik has been elaborating for a number of years. In calling mathematics a science he implies that it has a factual subject-matter and that mathematical knowledge is on a par with other scientific knowledge; in calling it a science of patterns he expresses his commitment to a structuralist philosophy of mathematics. He links this to a defense of realism about the metaphysics of mathematics--the view that mathematics is about things that really exist.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198236085
- OCLC:
- 36011733
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