The Space of Mathematics : : Philosophical, Epistemological, and Historical Explorations / / ed. by Andoni Ibarra, Javier Echeverria, Thomas Mormann.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Mathematics - 1990 - 1999
• MitwirkendeR: BREGER, HERBERT,; COSTA, NEWTON C. A. DA,; DAUBEN, JOSEPH W.,; DORIA, F. ANTONIO,; ECHEVERRIA, JAVIER,; FEFERMAN, SOLOMON,; GRATTAN-GUINNESS, IVOR,; HOWSON, COLIN,; IBARRA, ANDONI,; JAHNKE, HANS NIELS,; KNOBLOCH, EBERHARD,; LAWVERE, F. WILLIAM,; MACLANE, SAUNDERS,; MAHONEY, MICHAEL S.,; MORMANN, THOMAS,; MOSTERIN, JESUS,; MOULINES, C. ULISES,; NIINILUOTO, ILKKA,; RANTALA, VEIKKO,; RESNIK, MICHAEL D.,; SCHEIBE, ERHARD,; SCHMIDT, HEINZ-JÜRGEN,; SNEED, JOSEPH D.,; TORRETTI, ROBERTO,; ΟTTE, MICHAEL,
• HerausgeberIn: Echeverria, Javier,; Ibarra, Andoni,; Mormann, Thomas,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2012]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Edition: Reprint 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Grundlagen der Kommunikation und Kognition / Foundations of Communication and Cognition
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (422 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Table of Contents --; Acknowledgments --; Introductory afterthoughts --; Structural Dimensions --; The Protean Character of Mathematics --; Categories of Space and of Quantity --; Structural Analogies Between Mathematical and Empirical Theories --; Reduction and Explanation: Science vs. Mathematics --; Reality, Truth, and Confirmation in Mathematics – Reflections on the Quasi-Empiricist Programme --; Tacit Knowledge in Mathematical Theory --; Structure-Similarity as a Cornerstone of the Philosophy of Mathematics --; Dimensions of Applicability --; Applying Mathematics and the Indispensability Argument --; Mathematical Structures and Physical Necessity --; The Role of Mathematics in Physical Science --; The Status of Set-theoretic Axioms in Empirical Theories --; Suppes Predicates for Classical Physics --; Mathematics in Philosophy --; Historical Dimensions --; Are There Revolutions in Mathematics? --; Observations, Problems and Conjectures in Number Theory – The History of the Prime Number Theorem --; Historical Aspects of the Foundations of Error Theory --; A Structuralist View of Lagrange’s Algebraic Analysis and the German Combinatorial School --; Constructivism and Objects of Mathematical Theory --; Turing’s “Oracle”: From Absolute to Relative Computability – and Back --; Computers and Mathematics: The Search for a Discipline of Computer Science --; Global Dimensions of Knowledge: Information, Implementation, and Intertheoretic Relations --; Theories and the Flow of Information --; Structuralism and Scientific Discovery --; Towards a Typology of Intertheoretical Relations --; Index of Names --; 423-424
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9783110870299; 9783110637199
• DOI: 10.1515/9783110870299
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Andoni Ibarra, Javier Echeverria, Thomas Mormann.