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The applicability of mathematics as a philosophical problem /
This text analyzes the different ways mathematics is applicable in the physical sciences, and presents a novel thesis - the success of mathematical physics appears to assign the human mind a special place in the cosmos.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Mass. :
Harvard University Press,
1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The semantic applicability of mathematics: Frege's achievements
- The descriptive applicability of mathematics
- Mathematics, analogies, and discovery in physics
- Pythagorean analogies in physics
- Formalisms and formalist reasoning in quantum mechanics
- Formalist reasoning: the mystery of quantization
- Appendix A.A "nonphysical" derivation of quantum mechanics
- Appendix B. Nucleon-pion scattering
- Appendix C. Nonrelativistic Schroedinger equation with spin.