Screen LibraryMathematics as a Tool : Tracing New Roles of Mathematics in the Sciences /
This book puts forward a new role for mathematics in the natural sciences. In the traditional understanding, a strong viewpoint is advocated, on the one hand, according to which mathematics is used for truthfully expressing laws of nature and thus for rendering the rational structure of the world. I...
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Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer,
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| Publisher Address: | Cham : |
| Publication Dates: | 2017. |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science,
327 |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-54469-4 |
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This book puts forward a new role for mathematics in the natural sciences. In the traditional understanding, a strong viewpoint is advocated, on the one hand, according to which mathematics is used for truthfully expressing laws of nature and thus for rendering the rational structure of the world. In a weaker understanding, many deny that these fundamental laws are of an essentially mathematical character, and suggest that mathematics is merely a convenient tool for systematizing observational knowledge. The position developed in this volume combines features of both the strong and the weak |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (X, 286 pages): illustrations. |
| ISBN: | 9783319544694 |
| Index Number: | GE45 |
| CLC: | X11 |
| Contents: | Chapter 1. Introduction (Johannes Lenhard) -- Part 1. Organizing Science -- Chapter 2. Rational and Empirical Cultures of Prediction (Ann Johnson) -- Chapter 3. Mathematization in Synthetic Biology: Analogies, Templates, and Fictions (Tarja Knuuttila) -- Chapter 4. Trigonometry, Construction by Straightedge and Compass, and the applied mathematics of the Almagest (Ido Yavetz) -- Chapter 5. Shaping Mathematics as a Tool: The Search for a Mathematical Model of Quasi-Crystals (Henrik Kragh S rensen) -- Part 2. Conceptual Re-Evaluation -- Chapter 6. Boon and Bane: On the Role of Adjustable Param |