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Varieties of Continua
From Regions to Points and Back
Av Stewart Shapiro, Geoffrey Hellman
E-bok, 2018
1027 kr
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Varieties of Continua explores the development of the idea of the continuous. Hellman and Shapiro begin with two historical episodes. The first is the remarkably rapid transition in the course of the nineteenth century from the ancient Aristotelian view, that a true continuum cannot be composed of …
History of Continua
Philosophical and Mathematical Perspectives
Av Geoffrey Hellman, Stewart Shapiro
E-bok, 2020
1818 kr
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Mathematical and philosophical thought about continuity has changed considerably over the ages. Aristotle insisted that continuous substances are not composed of points, and that they can only be divided into parts potentially. There is something viscous about the continuous. It is a unified whole. …
History of Continua
Philosophical and Mathematical Perspectives
Av Geoffrey Hellman, Stewart Shapiro
E-bok, 2020
1925 kr
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Mathematical and philosophical thought about continuity has changed considerably over the ages. Aristotle insisted that continuous substances are not composed of points, and that they can only be divided into parts potentially. There is something viscous about the continuous. It is a unified whole. …
Mathematics without Numbers
Towards a Modal-Structural Interpretation
Häftad, 1993
1041 kr
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Geoffrey Hellman presents a detailed interpretation of mathematics as the investigation of structural possibilities, as opposed to absolute, Platonic objects. After dealing with the natural numbers and analysis, he extends his approach to set theory, and shows how to dispense with a fixed universe …
Varieties of Continua
From Regions to Points and Back
Av Geoffrey Hellman, Stewart Shapiro
Inbunden, 2018
1481 kr
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Varieties of Continua explores the development of the idea of the continuous. Hellman and Shapiro begin with two historical episodes. The first is the remarkably rapid transition in the course of the nineteenth century from the ancient Aristotelian view, that a true continuum cannot be composed of …
The History of Continua
Philosophical and Mathematical Perspectives
Av Stewart Shapiro, Stewart Shapiro m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
2597 kr
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Mathematical and philosophical thought about continuity has changed considerably over the ages. Aristotle insisted that continuous substances are not composed of points, and that they can only be divided into parts potentially. There is something viscous about the continuous. It is a unified whole. …
Mathematical Structuralism
Av Geoffrey Hellman, Stewart Shapiro
Häftad, 2018
308 kr
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The present work is a systematic study of five frameworks or perspectives articulating mathematical structuralism, whose core idea is that mathematics is concerned primarily with interrelations in abstraction from the nature of objects. The first two, set-theoretic and category-theoretic, arose …
Mathematics and Its Logics
Philosophical Essays
Inbunden, 2021
1432 kr
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In these essays Geoffrey Hellman presents a strong case for a healthy pluralism in mathematics and its logics, supporting peaceful coexistence despite what appear to be contradictions between different systems, and positing different frameworks serving different legitimate purposes. The essays …
Mathematical Structuralism
Av Stewart Shapiro, Geoffrey Hellman
E-bok, 2018
287 kr
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The present work is a systematic study of five frameworks or perspectives articulating mathematical structuralism, whose core idea is that mathematics is concerned primarily with interrelations in abstraction from the nature of objects. The first two, set-theoretic and category-theoretic, arose …
Mathematical Structuralism
Av Stewart Shapiro, Geoffrey Hellman
E-bok, 2018
294 kr
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The present work is a systematic study of five frameworks or perspectives articulating mathematical structuralism, whose core idea is that mathematics is concerned primarily with interrelations in abstraction from the nature of objects. The first two, set-theoretic and category-theoretic, arose …
Mathematics and Its Logics
Philosophical Essays
Häftad, 2022
455 kr
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In these essays Geoffrey Hellman presents a strong case for a healthy pluralism in mathematics and its logics, supporting peaceful coexistence despite what appear to be contradictions between different systems, and positing different frameworks serving different legitimate purposes. The essays …
Mathematics and Its Logics
Philosophical Essays
E-bok, 2021
440 kr
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In these essays Geoffrey Hellman presents a strong case for a healthy pluralism in mathematics and its logics, supporting peaceful coexistence despite what appear to be contradictions between different systems, and positing different frameworks serving different legitimate purposes. The essays …
Hilary Putnam on Logic and Mathematics
Av Geoffrey Hellman, Roy T. Cook
Inbunden, 2018
1405 kr
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This book explores the research of Professor Hilary Putnam, a Harvard professor as well as a leading philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist. It features the work of distinguished scholars in the field as well as a selection of young academics who have studied topics closely connected to …
Hilary Putnam on Logic and Mathematics
Av Roy T. Cook, Geoffrey Hellman
E-bok, 2018
1785 kr
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This book explores the research of Professor Hilary Putnam, a Harvard professor as well as a leading philosopher, mathematician and computer scientist. It features the work of distinguished scholars in the field as well as a selection of young academics who have studied topics closely connected to …
