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Doing mathematics : convention, subject, calculation, analogy /
A discussion of some ways of doing mathematical work and the subject matter that is being worked upon and created. It argues that the conventions we adopt, the subject areas we delimit, what we can prove and calculate about the physical world, and the analogies that work for mathematicians - all dep...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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River Edge, NJ :
World Scientific,
©2003.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- One. Introduction
- Two. Convention: how means and variances are entrenched as statistics
- Three. Subject: the fields of topology
- Four. Calculation: strategy, structure, and tactics in applying classical analysis
- Five. Analogy: a syzygy between a research program in mathematics and a research program in physics
- Six. In concreto: the city of mathematics
- Epilog.