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Towards a philosophy of real mathematics /
In this ambitious study, David Corfield sets out a variety of approaches to new thinking about the philosophy of mathematics, and challenges both philosophers and mathematicians to develop the broadest and richest philosophical resources for work in their disciplines.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, UK ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: a role for history
- Human and Artificial Mathematicians
- Communicating with automated theorem provers
- Automated conjecture formation
- The role of analogy in mathematics
- Plausibility, uncertainty and probability
- Bayesianism in mathematics
- Uncertainty in mathematics and science
- The Growth of Mathematics
- Lakatos's philosophy of mathematics
- Beyond the methodology of mathematical research programmes
- The importance of mathematical conceptualisation
- The Interpretation of Mathematics
- Higher dimensional algebra.