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Figuring Space: Philosophy, Mathematics and Physics
168,90 €
Springer
Sivumäärä: 199 sivua
Asu: Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Painos: Softcover reprint of
Julkaisuvuosi: 2010, 15.12.2010 (lisätietoa)
Kieli: Englanti

In emFiguring Space/em Gilles Châtelet seeks to capture the problem of intuition of mobility in philosophy, mathematics and physics. This he does by means of virtuality and intensive quantities (Oresme, Leibniz), wave-particle duality and perspective diagrams, philosophy of nature and Argand's and Grassman's geometric discoveries and, finally, Faraday's, Maxwell's and Hamilton's electrophilosophy. br/ This tumultuous relationship between mathematics, physics and philosophy is presented in terms of a comparison between emintuitive/em empractices/em and emDiscursive practices/em. The following concepts are treated in detail: The concept of virtuality; thought experiments; diagrams; special relativity; German Naturphilosophie and `Romantic' science. br/ emReadership:/em The book does not require any considerable mathematical background, but it does insist that the reader quit the common instrumental conception of language. It will interest professional philosophers, mathematicians, physicists, and even younger scientists eager to understand the `unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics'.

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