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The space of mathematics : philosophical, epistemological, and historical explorations / edited by Javier Echeverria, Andoni Ibarra, Thomas Mormann.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Foundations of communication and cognition.
- Grundlagen der Kommunikation und Kognition = Foundations of communication and cognition
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mathematics--Philosophy--Congresses.
- Mathematics.
- Mathematics--History--Congresses.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (440 pages) : illustrations.
- Edition:
- Reprint 2012
- Place of Publication:
- Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, 1992.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- No detailed description available for "The Space of Mathematics".
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Rev. papers presented at a symposium on structures in mathematical theories, held in Sept. 1990 in Donostia/San Sebastian, Spain.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9783110870299
- 3110870290
- OCLC:
- 979692948
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