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Mathematics As a Science of Patterns

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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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Year:
1997
Publisher:
Clarendon Press • Oxford
Language:
English
Pages:
301
ISBN 10:
0198236085
ISBN 13:
9780198236085
ISBN:
0198236085,9780198236085

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