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Mathematics as a Science of Patterns
Overview
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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- ISBN-13: 9780198236085
- ISBN-10: 0198236085
- Publisher: OUP Oxford
- Publish Date: September 1997
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.81 inches
- Shipping Weight: 1.16 pounds
- Page Count: 298
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