Mathematics and philosophy / Daniel Parrochia. 6
By: Parrochia, Daniel, 4 0 16 [, author.] | [, ] |
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Language: Unknown language code Summary language: Unknown language code Original language: Unknown language code Series: ; Mathematics and statistics seriesLondon :;Hoboken, NJ : ISTE Ltd ;;John Wiley & Sons, Inc., [2018]46Edition: Description: 1 online resourceContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781119426813ISSN: 2Other title: 6 []Uniform titles: | | Subject(s): -- 2 -- 0 -- -- | -- 2 -- 0 -- 6 -- | 2 0 -- | -- -- 20 -- | | -- -- Philosophy. Mathematics -- -- 20 -- | -- -- -- 20 -- --Genre/Form: Electronic books. -- 2 -- Additional physical formats: DDC classification: | 510.1 LOC classification: | QA8.4 | 2Other classification:| Item type | Current location | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Intro; Table of Contents; Introduction; PART: 1 The Contribution of Mathematician-Philosophers; Introduction to Part 1; 1 Irrational Quantities; 1.1. The appearance of irrationals or the end of the Pythagorean dream; 1.2. The first philosophical impact; 1.3. Consequences of the discovery of irrationals; 1.4. Possible solutions; 1.5. A famous example: the golden number; 1.6. Plato and the dichotomic processes; 1.7. The Platonic generalization of ancient Pythagoreanism; 1.8. Epistemological consequences: the evolution of reason; 2 All About the Doubling of the Cube;6 Complexes, Logarithms and Exponentials6.1. The road to complex numbers; 6.2. Logarithms and exponentials; 6.3. De Moivre's and Euler's formulas; 6.4. Consequences on Hegelian philosophy; 6.5. Euler's formula; 6.6. Euler, Diderot and the existence of God; 6.7. The approximation of functions; 6.8. Wronski's philosophy and mathematics; 6.9. Historical positivism and spiritual metaphysics; 6.10. The physical interest of complex numbers; 6.11. Consequences on Bergsonian philosophy; PART: 3 Significant Advances; Introduction to Part 3; 7 Chance, Probability and Metaphysics;7.1. Calculating probability: a brief history7.2. Pascal's wager; 7.3. Social applications, from Condorcet to Musil; 7.4. Chance, coincidences and omniscience; 8 The Geometric Revolution; 8.1. The limits of the Euclidean demonstrative ideal; 8.2. Contesting Euclidean geometry; 8.3. Bolyai's and Lobatchevsky geometries; 8.4. Riemann's elliptical geometry; 8.5. Bachelard and the philosophy of non; 8.6. The unification of Geometry by Beltrami and Klein; 8.7. Hilbert's axiomatization; 8.8. The reception of non-Euclidean geometries; 8.9. A distant impact: Finsler's philosophy
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This book, which studies the links between mathematics and philosophy, highlights a reversal. Initially, the (Greek) philosophers were also mathematicians (geometers). Their vision of the world stemmed from their research in this field (rational and irrational numbers, problem of duplicating the cube, trisection of the angle...). Subsequently, mathematicians freed themselves from philosophy (with Analysis, differential Calculus, Algebra, Topology, etc.), but their researches continued to inspire philosophers (Descartes, Leibniz, Hegel, Husserl, etc.). However, from a certain level of complexity, the mathematicians themselves became philosophers (a movement that begins with Wronsky and Clifford, and continues until Grothendieck).
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed May 30, 2018).
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