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Mathematics as a Science of Patterns
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ISBN10: 0198236085
ISBN13: 9780198236085
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Sep 11 1997
Pages: 298
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780198236085
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Sep 11 1997
Pages: 298
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
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.
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