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Visualization, Explanation and Reasoning Styles in Mathematics (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005) Loot Price: R2,886
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Visualization, Explanation and Reasoning Styles in Mathematics (Paperback, Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005)

P. Mancosu, Klaus Frovin Jorgensen, S.A. Pedersen

Series: Synthese Library, 327

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In the 20th century philosophy of mathematics has to a great extent been dominated by views developed during the so-called foundational crisis in the beginning of that century. These views have primarily focused on questions pertaining to the logical structure of mathematics and questions regarding the justi?cation and consistency of mathematics. Paradigmatic in this - spect is Hilbert's program which inherits from Frege and Russell the project to formalize all areas of ordinary mathematics and then adds the requi- ment of a proof, by epistemically privileged means (?nitistic reasoning), of the consistency of such formalized theories. While interest in modi?ed v- sions of the original foundational programs is still thriving, in the second part of the twentieth century several philosophers and historians of mat- matics have questioned whether such foundational programs could exhaust the realm of important philosophical problems to be raised about the nature of mathematics. Some have done so in open confrontation (and hostility) to the logically based analysis of mathematics which characterized the cl- sical foundational programs, while others (and many of the contributors to this book belong to this tradition) have only called for an extension of the range of questions and problems that should be raised in connection with an understanding of mathematics. The focus has turned thus to a consideration of what mathematicians are actually doing when they produce mathematics. Questions concerning concept-formation, understanding, heuristics, changes instyle of reasoning, the role of analogies and diagrams etc.

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Imprint: Springer
Country of origin: Netherlands
Series: Synthese Library, 327
Release date: October 2010
First published: 2005
Editors: P. Mancosu • Klaus Frovin Jorgensen • S.A. Pedersen
Dimensions: 240 x 160 x 17mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 300
Edition: Softcover reprint of hardcover 1st ed. 2005
ISBN-13: 978-90-481-6837-8
Categories: Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Combinatorics & graph theory
Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > History of mathematics
Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science
Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Mathematical foundations > General
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LSN: 90-481-6837-6
Barcode: 9789048168378

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