What Is Mathematics Really?

Reuben Hersh (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

368 Seiten

1998
Vintage (Verlag)
978-0-09-974831-1 (ISBN)

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In what sense do mathematical objects exist? How can we have knowledge of them? Why do mathematicians think mathematical entities exist for ever, independent of human action and knowledge? This book illuminates the mysteries behind the meaning and nature of mathematics.

This book tackles important questions which have engaged mathematicians and philosophers for thousands of years and are still being asked today. The main purpose of the book is to ask: In what sense do mathematical objects exist? How can we have knowledge of them? Why do mathematicians think mathematical entities exist for ever, independent of human action and knowledge? In clear, elegant prose and with scholarship born of first-hand experience, Reuben Hersh illuminates the mysteries behind the meaning and nature of mathematics.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	2.7.1998
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 199 mm
Gewicht	330 g
Themenwelt	Schulbuch / Wörterbuch
Themenwelt	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik
ISBN-10	0-09-974831-2 / 0099748312
ISBN-13	978-0-09-974831-1 / 9780099748311
Zustand	Neuware