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Role of Mathematics in the Rise of Science
By (Author) Salomon Trust
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Philosophy of mathematics
510.9
Hardback
398
Width 127mm, Height 203mm
510g
The central theme of these essays is the nature and role of mathematics, its growth and spread, and its involvement with ever-wider areas of knowledge. The author attempts to determine the decisive and creative aspects of the abstractness" of mathematics which have made it the dominant intellectual force that it is. He frequently confronts the math