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Mathematics and Reality Leng, Mary (University of York)
Mathematics and Reality
Leng, Mary (University of York)
Mary Leng defends a philosophical account of the nature of mathematics which views it as a kind of fiction (albeit an extremely useful fiction). On this view, the claims of our ordinary mathematical theories are more closely analogous to utterances made in the context of storytelling than to utterances whose aim is to assert literal truths.
290 pages, black & white illustrations
| Medios de comunicación | Libros Hardcover Book (Libro con lomo y cubierta duros) |
| Publicado | 22 de abril de 2010 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199280797 |
| Editores | Oxford University Press |
| Páginas | 290 |
| Dimensiones | 163 × 241 × 22 mm · 594 g |
| Lengua | Inglés |