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Philosophy of mathematics : a contemporary introduction to the world of proofs and pictures
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Philosophy of mathematics : a contemporary introduction to the world of proofs and pictures

Author: James Robert Brown
Publisher: New York : Routledge, 2008.
Series: Routledge contemporary introductions to philosophy
Edition/Format: Book : English : 2nd edView all editions and formats
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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.
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