Representation and Productive Ambiguity in Mathematics and the Sciences
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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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0199299730
ISBN13:9780199299737
Release Date:October 2007
Publisher:Clarendon Press
Length:332 Pages
Weight:1.20 lbs.
Dimensions:0.9" x 6.5" x 9.2"
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