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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: Growth of Mathematical Knowledge
  name:
    name part: Grosholz, Emily.
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Breger, Herbert.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: ne
    date issued: 2000
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (xli, 428 pages)
  abstract: This book draws its inspiration from Hilbert, Wittgenstein, Cavaillès and Lakatos and is designed to reconfigure contemporary philosophy of mathematics by making the growth of knowledge rather than its foundations central to the study of mathematical rationality, and by analyzing the notion of growth in historical as well as logical terms. Not a mere compendium of opinions, it is organised in dialogical forms, with each philosophical thesis answered by one or more historical case studies designed to support, complicate or question it. The first part of the book examines the role of scientific theory and empirical fact in the growth of mathematical knowledge. The second examines the role of abstraction, analysis and axiomatization. The third raises the question of whether the growth of mathematical knowledge constitutes progress, and how progress may be understood. Readership: Students and scholars concerned with the history and philosophy of mathematics and the formal sciences.
  note: edited by Emily Grosholz, Herbert Breger.
  note: Electronic resource.
  subject:
    topic: Philosophy (General)
  subject:
    topic: Logic
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Philosophy
  subject:
    topic: Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
  subject:
    topic: History
  classification: BC1-199
  classification: 160
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Synthese library ; 289
  identifier: 9789401595582 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9401595585 (electronic bk.)
  identifier: 9789048153916
  identifier: 9048153913
  identifier: 9401595585
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: AU@
    record creation date: 130407
    record change date: 20260422220739.7
    record identifier: in00003576611
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng