Mathematics As a Science of Patterns
Michael D. Resnik
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.
种类:
年:
1997
出版社:
Clarendon Press • Oxford
语言:
english
页:
301
ISBN 10:
0198236085
ISBN 13:
9780198236085
文件:
PDF, 29.45 MB
IPFS:
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english, 1997