18 unconventional essays on the nature of mathematics

Advance praise for 18 Unconventional Essays on the Nature of Mathematics: "I was pleasantly surprised to find that this book does not treat mathematics as dessicated formal logic but as a living organism, immediately recognizable to any working mathematician." - Sir Michael Atiyah, Univers...

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Tác giả khác: Hersh, Reuben (Giám đốc xuất bản)
Định dạng: Livre numérique
Ngôn ngữ:Anglais
Được phát hành: New York, NY : Springer New York 2006.
Cham : Springer Nature
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Edition sous un autre format:• 18 Unconventional Essays on the Nature of Mathematics, Texte imprimé, 9780387257174
• 18 Unconventional Essays on the Nature of Mathematics, Texte imprimé, 9780387506807
Mục lục:
  • A Socratic Dialogue on Mathematics
  • Introduction to Filosofia e matematica
  • On Proof and Progress in Mathematics
  • The Informal Logic of Mathematical Proof
  • Philosophical Problems of Mathematics in the Light of Evolutionary Epistemology
  • Towards a Semiotics of Mathematics
  • Computers and the Sociology of Mathematical Proof
  • From G.H.H. and Littlewood to XML and Maple: Changing Needs and Expectations in Mathematical Knowledge Management
  • Do Real Numbers Really Move? Language, Thought, and Gesture: The Embodied Cognitive Foundations of Mathematics
  • Does Mathematics Need a Philosophy?
  • How and Why Mathematics Is Unique as a Social Practice
  • The Pernicious Influence of Mathematics upon Philosophy
  • The Pernicious Influence of Mathematics on Science
  • What Is Philosophy of Mathematics Looking for?
  • Concepts and the Mangle of Practice Constructing Quaternions
  • Mathematics as Objective Knowledge and as Human Practice
  • The Locus of Mathematical Reality: An Anthropological Footnote
  • Inner Vision, Outer Truth.