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Author Steiner, Mark.

Title The applicability of mathematics as a philosophical problem / Mark Steiner.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998.

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Description 1 online resource (viii, 215 pages)
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 203-209) and index.
Contents The semantic applicability of mathematics: Frege's achievements -- The descriptive applicability of mathematics -- Mathematics, analogies, and discovery in physics -- Pythagorean analogies in physics -- Formalisms and formalist reasoning in quantum mechanics -- Formalist reasoning: the mystery of quantization -- Appendix A.A "nonphysical" derivation of quantum mechanics -- Appendix B. Nucleon-pion scattering -- Appendix C. Nonrelativistic Schroedinger equation with spin.
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Subject Mathematical physics.
Mathematical physics.
Mathematics -- Philosophy.
Mathematics -- Philosophy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Steiner, Mark. Applicability of mathematics as a philosophical problem. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1998 067404097X 9780674040977 (DLC) 98003469 (OCoLC)38738748
ISBN 9780674043985 (electronic book)
0674043987 (electronic book)
9780674009707
067404097X (alkaline paper)