David Corfield, Corfield David

Towards a Philosophy of Real Mathematics

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Produktbeschreibung

Corfield sets out a variety of approaches to new thinking about the philosophy of mathematics.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. November 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 490g
• ISBN-13: 9780521035255
• ISBN-10: 0521035252
• Artikelnr.: 22533833

Autorenporträt

David Corfield holds a Junior Lectureship in Philosophy of Science at the University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Introduction: a role for history
Part I. Human and Artificial Mathematicians: 2. Communicating with automated theorem provers
3. Automated conjecture formation
4. The role of analogy in mathematics
Part II. Plausibility, Uncertainty and Probability: 5. Bayesianism in mathematics
6. Uncertainty in mathematics and science
Part III. The Growth of Mathematics: 7. Lakatos's philosophy of mathematics
8. Beyond the methodology of mathematical research programmes
9. The importance of mathematical conceptualisation
Part IV. The Interpretation of Mathematics: 10. Higher dimensional algebra
Appendix
Bibliography
Index.