Mathematics As a Science of Patterns
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Mathematics As a Science of Patterns
Book Details
- Author
- Michael D. Resnik
- Publisher
- OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Category
- History
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780198250142
- ISBN-10
- 0198250142
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ISBN: 0198250142
Author: Resnik, Michael D.
Condition: New
This book expounds 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 defense of realism about the metaphysics of mathematics--the view that mathematics is about things that really exist.
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