David Corfield, Madeline Muntersbjorn, Mark Colyvan

An Introduction to the Philosophy of Mathematics

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A fascinating journey through intriguing mathematical and philosophical territory - a lively introduction to this contemporary topic.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 250mm x 175mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 536g
• ISBN-13: 9780521826020
• ISBN-10: 0521826020
• Artikelnr.: 35114378

Autorenporträt

Mark Colyvan is Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Sydney Centre for the Foundations of Science at the University of Sydney. He is the co-author (with Lev Ginzburg) of Ecological Orbits: How Planets Move and Populations Grow (2004) and author of The Indispensability of Mathematics (2001).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Mathematics and its philosophy
2. The limits of mathematics
3. Plato's heaven
4. Fiction, metaphor, and partial truths
5. Mathematical explanation
6. The applicability of mathematics
7. Who's afraid of inconsistent mathematics?
8. A rose by any other name
9. Epilogue: desert island theorems.