Doing Mathematics: Convention, Subject, Calculation, Analogy

ISBN-13: 9789812382009 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 472 str.

Martin H. Krieger

Opis

A discussion of ways of doing mathematical work. It argues that the conventions we adopt, the subject areas we delimit, what we can prove and calculate about the physical world, and the analogies that work for mathematicians - all depend on mathematics, what will work out and what won't.