Mathematics as a Science of Patterns - Hardcover

Resnik, Michael D.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198236085 ISBN 13: 9780198236085

Verlag: Oxford University Press, 1997

Inhaltsangabe

Mathematics as a Science of Patterns is the definitive exposition of 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 defence of realism about the metaphysics of mathematics--the view that mathematics is about things that really exist.

Resnik's distinctive philosophy of mathematics is here presented in an accessible and systematic form: it will be of value not only to specialists in this area, but to philosophers, mathematicians, and logicians interested in the relationship between these three disciplines, or in truth, realism, and epistemology.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0198236085
• ISBN 13: 9780198236085
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 298
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