Philosophy of mathematics books

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Geometry by Discovery

Geometry by Discovery

Author: David Gay (University of Arizona)
ISBN: 9780471041771
Format: Paperback
$414.95

This text seeks to get students actively involved in problem-solving, especially of a geometric nature. The approach...  Read More >>

Philosophy of Mathematics: Structure and Ontology

Philosophy of Mathematics: Structure and Ontology

Author: Stewart Shapiro (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Ohio State University at Newark)
ISBN: 9780195094527
Format: Hardback
$253.44

A structuralist approach to mathematical theory in which Shapiro argues that both realist and anti-realist accounts...  Read More >>

Social Constructivism as a Philosophy of Mathematics

Social Constructivism as a Philosophy of Mathematics...

Author: Paul Ernest
ISBN: 9780791435878
Format: Hardback
$151.80

Extends the ideas of social constructivism to the philosophy of mathematics, developing a powerful critique of traditional...  Read More >>

Social Constructivism as a Philosophy of Mathematics

Social Constructivism as a Philosophy of Mathematics...

Author: Paul Ernest
ISBN: 9780791435885
Format: Paperback
$79.07

Extends the ideas of social constructivism to the philosophy of mathematics, developing a powerful critique of traditional...  Read More >>

Max Bense: Philosophie der Mathematik, Naturwissenschaft und Technik: Ausgewählte Schriften in vier Bänden, Band 2

Max Bense: Philosophie der Mathematik, Naturwissenschaft...

Author: Elisabeth Emter ,  Elisabeth Walther
ISBN: 9783476015662
Format: Hardback
$158.37

"Die auf vier Bände angelegten ""Ausgewählten Schriften"" von Max Bense bieten einen repräsentativen Querschnitt...  Read More >>

Nature's Numbers: The Unreal Reality Of Mathematics

Nature's Numbers: The Unreal Reality Of Mathematics...

Author: Ian Stewart
ISBN: 9780465072743
Format: Paperback
$42.24

Mathematics has the power to open our eyes to new and unsuspected regularities in nature - the secret structure...  Read More >>

From Brouwer to Hilbert

From Brouwer to Hilbert

Author: Mancosu
ISBN: 9780195096323
Format: Paperback
$83.95

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Mathematics Education and Language: Interpreting Hermeneutics and Post-Structuralism

Mathematics Education and Language: Interpreting Hermeneutics...

Author: Tony Brown
ISBN: 9780792345541
Format: Hardback
$417.12

Contemporary thinking on philosophy and the social sciences has been dominated by analyses that emphasize the importance...  Read More >>

The Taming of the True

The Taming of the True

Author: Neil Tennant (, Ohio State University)
ISBN: 9780198237174
Format: Hardback
$236.95

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Reality Rules, Set

Reality Rules, Set

Author: John Casti (Technical University of Vienna, Austria and Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico)
ISBN: 9780471184379
Format: Paperback
$446.95

Exploring the syntax and semantics of the language in which mathematical modelling rules are written, this text...  Read More >>

Mathematical Reasoning: Analogies, Metaphors, and Images

Mathematical Reasoning: Analogies, Metaphors, and Images...

Author: Lyn D. English
ISBN: 9780805819793
Format: Paperback
$101.00

Drawing upon the interdisciplinary nature of cognitive science, this book presents a perspective on mathematics...  Read More >>

Mathematical Reasoning: Analogies, Metaphors, and Images

Mathematical Reasoning: Analogies, Metaphors, and Images...

Author: Lyn D. English
ISBN: 9780805819786
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Drawing upon the interdisciplinary nature of cognitive science, this book presents a perspective on mathematics...  Read More >>

Analysis and Synthesis in Mathematics: History and Philosophy

Analysis and Synthesis in Mathematics: History and Philosophy...

Author: M. Otte ,  Marco Panza
ISBN: 9780792345701
Format: Hardback
$599.28

In this volume various instances of the analytic-synthetic distinction are discussed in relation to the history...  Read More >>

Equivalence and Priority: Newton versus Leibniz: including Leibniz's Unpublished Manuscript on the Principia

Equivalence and Priority: Newton versus Leibniz: including...

Author: Domenico Bertoloni Meli (, Indiana University, USA)
ISBN: 9780198501435
Format: Paperback
$107.95

This book contains an edition of several hitherto unpublished manuscripts in Leibniz's hand illustrating his first...  Read More >>

The Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the Renaissance

The Invention of Infinity: Mathematics and Art in the...

Author: J. V. Field (Research Fellow, Department of History of Art, Birkbeck College, Research Fellow, Department of History of Art, Birkbeck College, University of London)
ISBN: 9780198523949
Format: Hardback
$133.95

This book tells (for the first time) the story of how the `practical' mathematics of Renaissance artists influenced...  Read More >>

Reality Rules, The Frontier

Reality Rules, The Frontier

Author: John Casti (Technical University of Vienna, Austria and Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico)
ISBN: 9780471184362
Format: Paperback
$276.95

Exploring the syntax and semantics of the language in which mathematical modelling rules are written, this text...  Read More >>

Reality Rules, The Fundamentals

Reality Rules, The Fundamentals

Author: John Casti (Technical University of Vienna, Austria and Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico)
ISBN: 9780471184355
Format: Paperback
$276.95

Exploring the syntax and semantics of the language in which mathematical modelling rules are written, this text...  Read More >>

Frege’s Philosophy of Mathematics

Frege’s Philosophy of Mathematics

Author: William Demopoulos
ISBN: 9780674319431
Format: Paperback
$90.95

This collection of essays addresses three main developments in recent work on Frege’s philosophy of mathematics:...  Read More >>

A Subject With No Object: Strategies for Nominalistic Interpretation of Mathematics

A Subject With No Object: Strategies for Nominalistic...

Author: John P. Burgess (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University) ,  Gideon Rosen (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Princeton University)
ISBN: 9780198236153
Format: Hardback
$150.95

A Subject With No Object is a study of philosophical attempts to interpret mathematics in nominalistic terms, that...  Read More >>

Philosophy of Mathematics Today

Philosophy of Mathematics Today

Author: E. Agazzi ,  György Darvas
ISBN: 9780792343431
Format: Hardback
$380.16

Mathematics is often considered as a body of knowledge that is essen­ tially independent of linguistic formulations,...  Read More >>

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