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The mathematical experience by Gian-Carlo Rota, Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh

The mathematical experience Gian-Carlo Rota, Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh ebook
ISBN: 039532131X, 9780395321317
Format: pdf
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company
Page: 455

Math is bogus, and used by science to make . However naïve we may know it is, the Platonic myth of mathematics does capture an aspect of our experience — the resistance of mathematical ideas to being merely what we want them to be — which is almost uncommunicable to the uninitiated. Taylor and the atomic bomb is well established in the folklore of applied mathematics, and has become a staple of introductory courses on dimensional analysis. Hofstadter is not inimical to mathematics as the lingua franca of science, which we think is detrimental to human thought, and a contrivance that is unreal, a concoction that gives scientists a mantle of authority that it doesn't really deserve. A teacher's answer determines how he teaches. Psychologism about Mathematical Entities. The people telling these stories were mathematics students, many of whom had no public speaking, science communication or teaching experience at the start of the project. A review from Amazon: I was going to study history. 'The Mathematical Experience' is a book that should widen most people's perspective. Empiricism is the epistemological doctrine that all concepts and theories, and justification for them, must be derived from experience.