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Representation and productive ambiguity in mathematics and the sciences /
Emily Grosholz offers an original investigation of demonstration in mathematics and science, examining how it works and why it is persuasive. Focusing on geometrical demonstration, she shows the roles that representation and ambiguity play in mathematical discovery. She presents a wide range of case...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford, UK ; New York, NY :
Oxford University Press,
2007.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | Emily Grosholz offers an original investigation of demonstration in mathematics and science, examining how it works and why it is persuasive. Focusing on geometrical demonstration, she shows the roles that representation and ambiguity play in mathematical discovery. She presents a wide range of case studies in mechanics, topology, algebra, logic, and chemistry, from ancient Greece to the present day, but focusing particularly on the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. Anyone. interested in how mathematics works will find this a stimulating read. - ;Emily Grosholz offers an original investigat. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xviii, 313 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-305) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191538513 0191538515 1281155373 9781281155375 9786611155377 6611155376 1435610164 9781435610163 |