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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
James Robert Brown |
| ISBN: | 9780415960472 0415960479 9780203932964 020393296X 9780415960489 0415960487 |
| OCLC Number: | 175218043 |
| Description: | xiv, 245 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Introduction : the mathematical image -- 2. Platonism -- 3. Picture-proofs and Platonism -- 4. What is applied mathematics? -- 5. Hilbert and Gödel -- 6. Knots and notation -- 7. What is a definition? -- 8. Constructive approaches -- 9. Proofs, pictures and procedures in Wittgenstein -- 10. Computation, proof and conjecture -- 11. How to refute the continuum hypothesis -- 12. Calling the bluff. |
| Series Title: | Routledge contemporary introductions to philosophy |
| Responsibility: | James Robert Brown. |
| More information: | Table of contents only |
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