Towards a philosophy of real mathematics:
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Main Author: Corfield, David (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 2003
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 274-285) and index
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
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
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (x, 288 pages)
ISBN:0511042701
0511054459
0521817226
9780511042706
9780511054457
9780521817226

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