Humanizing Mathematics and its Philosophy

Essays Celebrating the 90th Birthday of Reuben Hersh - Previously published in hardcover

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Herausgegeben von Sriraman, Bharath

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363 Seiten

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Springererschienen am30.08.2018Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017

This Festschrift contains numerous colorful and eclectic essays from well-known mathematicians, philosophers, logicians, and linguists celebrating the 90th birthday of Reuben Hersh.mehr

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KlappentextThis Festschrift contains numerous colorful and eclectic essays from well-known mathematicians, philosophers, logicians, and linguists celebrating the 90th birthday of Reuben Hersh.

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ISBN/GTIN978-3-319-87029-8

ProduktartBuch

EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback

Verlag

Springer

Erscheinungsjahr2018

Erscheinungsdatum30.08.2018

AuflageSoftcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017

Seiten363 Seiten

SpracheEnglisch

Gewicht569 g

IllustrationenX, 363 p. 20 illus., 8 illus. in color.

Artikel-Nr.46144027

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GenreNaturwissenschaft/Umwelt/Technik

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Inhaltsverzeichnis

An Interview with Reuben Hersh.- Nine decades: A photographic passage .- Pluralism as modeling and as Confusion.- Now has an infinitesimal positive duration.- Review of How Humans Learn to Think Mathematically: Exploring the three worlds of mathematics..- Can You Say What Mathematics Is?.- The Exact Sciences and Non-Euclidean Logic.- XENOMATH!.- Cognitive Networks: Brains, Internet and Civilizations.- Reuben Hersh on the Growth of Mathematical Knowledge: Kant, Geometry and Number Theory.- Do Mathematicians have responsibilities?.- School Mathematics and Real Mathematics.- What is Mathematics and What Should it Be?.- Humanism about Abstract Objects.- Can something just happen to be true?.- The Artificial Mathematician Objection: Exploring the (im)possibility of automating mathematical understanding.- Wittgenstein, Mathematics and the Temporality of Technique.- Gödel s Legacy.- Varieties of Maverick Philosophy of Mathematics.- Does reason evolve? (Does the reasoning in mathematics evolve?).- Mathematical Theories as Models.- Mathematics for makers and mathematics for users.- Case Study in Hersh s Philosophy: Bézout s Theorem.- A gift to teachers.- The Philosophy of Reuben Hersh: a non-technical assessment.- Friends and Former Comrades.- On the nature of mathematical entities.mehr