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  title info:
    title: Mathematics and scientific representation
  name:
    name part: Pincock, Christopher.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: Electronic books.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    place:
      place term: New York
    place:
      place term: Oxford
    publisher: Oxford University Press
    date issued: 2012
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource
  abstract: Mathematics plays a central role in much of contemporary science, but philosophers have struggled to understand what this role is or how significant it might be for mathematics and science. Pincock tackles this perennial question by asking how mathematics contributes to the success of our best scientific representations.
  table of contents: Part 1. Epistemic contributions -- Content and confirmation -- Causes -- Varying interpretations -- Scale matters -- Constitutive frameworks -- Failures -- Part 2. Other contributions -- Discovery -- Indispensability -- Explanation -- The rainbow -- Fictionalism -- Facades -- Conclusion: Pure mathematics.
  target audience: specialized
  note: Christopher Pincock.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: Sciences
    topic: Mathématiques
  subject:
    topic: Sciences
    topic: Méthodologie
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Mathematics
  subject:
    topic: Science
    topic: Methodology
  subject:
    topic: SCIENCE
    topic: Philosophy & Social Aspects
  classification: Q175.32.M38 P56 2012
  classification: 501.51
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Oxford studies in the philosophy of science
  identifier: 019993231X
  identifier: 9780199932313
  identifier: 9780199921096
  identifier: 0199921091
  identifier: 9780199757107
  identifier: 0199757100
  identifier: 342381 MIL
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  record info:
    record content source: StDuBDS
    record creation date: 120302
    record change date: 20260318190725.5
    record identifier: in00005708359
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng