Martin H. Krieger, who was trained as a physicist at Columbia University, has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and at the National Humanities Center. He is author of Marginalism and Discontinuity: Tools for the Crafts of Knowledge and Decision (1989), Constitutions of Matter: Mathematically Modeling the Most Everyday of Physical Phenomena (1996), and Doing Mathematics: Convention, Subject, Calculation, Analogy (2003). He is on the faculty of the University of Southern California, and has taught at Berkeley, Minnesota, MIT, and Michigan.
Martin H. Krieger, who was trained as a physicist at Columbia University, has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and at the National Humanities Center. He is author of Marginalism and Discontinuity: Tools for the Crafts of Knowledge and Decision (1989), Constitutions of Matter: Mathematically Modeling the Most Everyday of Physical Phenomena (1996), and Doing Mathematics: Convention, Subject, Calculation, Analogy (2003). He is on the faculty of the University of Southern California, and has taught at Berkeley, Minnesota, MIT, and Michigan.
Martin H. Krieger, who was trained as a physicist at Columbia University, has been a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences and at the National Humanities Center. He is author of Marginalism and Discontinuity: Tools for the Crafts of Knowledge and Decision (1989), Constitutions of Matter: Mathematically Modeling the Most Everyday of Physical Phenomena (1996), and Doing Mathematics: Convention, Subject, Calculation, Analogy (2003). He is on the faculty of the University of Southern California, and has taught at Berkeley, Minnesota, MIT, and Michigan.
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Preface Degrees of Freedom A Note to the Reader A Note for the Scholars This Second Edition Acknowledgments 1. The Division of Labor: The Factory Nature as a Factory Handles and Stories. What Everyday Walls Must Do Walls for a Factory Walls as Providential. Particles, Objects, and Workers What Particles Must Be Like Intuitions of Walls and Particles. What Fields Must Be Like. 2. Taking Apart and Putting Together: The Clockworks, The Calculus, and the Computer The Right Degrees of Freedom The Clockworks and The Calculus. Parts Are Strategies Independence and Randomness Dependence, Spreadsheets, and Differential Equations Additivity and The Calculus Disjoint Functionality and Interpretability: Bureaucracy, Flow Processing Plants, and Object-Oriented Programming Sequence and Procedure. Parts Are Commitments. 3. Freedom and Necessity: Family and Kinship Recapitulation and Prospect Kinship, Exchange, and Plenitude Systematics in the Field The Problem of "Quite Rarely" Markets and Fetishes Taking the Rules Seriously Structure and System. 4. The Vacuum and The Creation: Setting a Stage So Far, an Epitome Sweeping Up the Vacuum Symmetry and Order. The Empty Stage Of Nothing, Something, and the Vacuum. Setting Up the Stage Ideologies for a Vacuum The Dialectic of Finding a Good Vacuum The Analogy of Substance, Once More. Fluctuations in a Vacuum. Annealing the World. 5. Handles, Probes, and Tools: A Rhetoric of Nature A Craft of Science Some Handles onto the World (Particles, Crystals, Gasses Analogy Phase Transitions Knowledge Is Handling). Probes Objectivity and Inelasticity Probes and Handles. Tools and Toolkits A Physicist's Toolkit So Far. 6. Production Machinery: Mathematics for Analysis and Description Philosophical Analysis and Phenomenological Description Machinery and Production Processes Naming and Modeling the World Demonstrations and Proofs as Strategies of Explanation Understanding "The Physics" Analogy and Syzygy The Mathematics and The Physics 7. An Epitome Notes Index
Preface Degrees of Freedom A Note to the Reader A Note for the Scholars This Second Edition Acknowledgments 1. The Division of Labor: The Factory Nature as a Factory Handles and Stories. What Everyday Walls Must Do Walls for a Factory Walls as Providential. Particles, Objects, and Workers What Particles Must Be Like Intuitions of Walls and Particles. What Fields Must Be Like. 2. Taking Apart and Putting Together: The Clockworks, The Calculus, and the Computer The Right Degrees of Freedom The Clockworks and The Calculus. Parts Are Strategies Independence and Randomness Dependence, Spreadsheets, and Differential Equations Additivity and The Calculus Disjoint Functionality and Interpretability: Bureaucracy, Flow Processing Plants, and Object-Oriented Programming Sequence and Procedure. Parts Are Commitments. 3. Freedom and Necessity: Family and Kinship Recapitulation and Prospect Kinship, Exchange, and Plenitude Systematics in the Field The Problem of "Quite Rarely" Markets and Fetishes Taking the Rules Seriously Structure and System. 4. The Vacuum and The Creation: Setting a Stage So Far, an Epitome Sweeping Up the Vacuum Symmetry and Order. The Empty Stage Of Nothing, Something, and the Vacuum. Setting Up the Stage Ideologies for a Vacuum The Dialectic of Finding a Good Vacuum The Analogy of Substance, Once More. Fluctuations in a Vacuum. Annealing the World. 5. Handles, Probes, and Tools: A Rhetoric of Nature A Craft of Science Some Handles onto the World (Particles, Crystals, Gasses Analogy Phase Transitions Knowledge Is Handling). Probes Objectivity and Inelasticity Probes and Handles. Tools and Toolkits A Physicist's Toolkit So Far. 6. Production Machinery: Mathematics for Analysis and Description Philosophical Analysis and Phenomenological Description Machinery and Production Processes Naming and Modeling the World Demonstrations and Proofs as Strategies of Explanation Understanding "The Physics" Analogy and Syzygy The Mathematics and The Physics 7. An Epitome Notes Index
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