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Author Grosholz, Emily, 1950-

Title Representation and productive ambiguity in mathematics and the sciences / Emily R. Grosholz
Published Oxford, UK ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (xviii, 313 pages) : illustrations
Contents Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments; Part I: Introductory Chapters; Part II: Chemistry and Geometry; Part III: Geometry and Seventeenth Century Mechanics; Part IV: Geometry and Twentieth Century Topology; List of Illustrations; Glossary; Bibliography; Index
Summary Emily Grosholz offers an original investigation of demonstration in mathematics and science, examining how it works and why it is persuasive. Focusing on geometrical demonstration, she shows the roles that representation and ambiguity play in mathematical discovery. She presents a wide range of case studies in mechanics, topology, algebra, logic, and chemistry, from ancient Greece to the present day, but focusing particularly on the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. Anyone. interested in how mathematics works will find this a stimulating read. - ;Emily Grosholz offers an original investigat
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 293-305) and index
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Subject Mathematics -- Philosophy.
Ambiguity in science.
Knowledge, Theory of.
Science -- Philosophy.
epistemology.
MATHEMATICS -- History & Philosophy.
Ambiguity in science
Knowledge, Theory of
Mathematics -- Philosophy
Science -- Philosophy
Form Electronic book
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