Mathematics as a science of patterns [electronic resource] / Michael D. Resnik

Author:: Resnik, Michael D.
Published:: Oxford : Clarendon, 1997.
Physical Description:: 1 online resource (xiii, 285 pages) : illustrations

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Summary:

Resnik expresses his commitment to a structuralist philosophy of mathematics and links this to a defence of realism about the metaphysics of mathematics - the view that mathematics is about things that really exist.

Subject(s):

Mathematics—Philosophy

ISBN:

9780191598296 (ebook)

Bibliography Note:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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