Name: Mathematics as a Tool: Tracing New Roles of Mathematics in the Sciences (en Inglés)
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Author: Lenhard, Johannes ; Carrier, Martin
ISBN: 9783319854007

portada Mathematics as a Tool: Tracing New Roles of Mathematics in the Sciences (en Inglés)

Mathematics as a Tool: Tracing New Roles of Mathematics in the Sciences (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

Springer

Autor

Lenhard, Johannes ; Carrier, Martin

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

286

Encuadernación

Tapa Blanda

Dimensiones

23.4 x 15.4 x 1.8 cm

Peso

0.59 kg.

ISBN13

9783319854007

Categorías

Filosofía de la ciencia
Influencia de la ciencia y la tecnología sobre la sociedad
Historia de la ciencia
Ciencia, ingeniería y tecnología medioambientales

Mathematics as a Tool: Tracing New Roles of Mathematics in the Sciences (en Inglés)

Lenhard, Johannes ; Carrier, Martin (Autor) · Springer · Tapa Blanda

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Reseña del libro "Mathematics as a Tool: Tracing New Roles of Mathematics in the Sciences (en Inglés)"

This book puts forward a new role for mathematics in the natural sciences. In the traditional understanding, a strong viewpoint is advocated, on the one hand, according to which mathematics is used for truthfully expressing laws of nature and thus for rendering the rational structure of the world. In a weaker understanding, many deny that these fundamental laws are of an essentially mathematical character, and suggest that mathematics is merely a convenient tool for systematizing observational knowledge. The position developed in this volume combines features of both the strong and the weak viewpoint. In accordance with the former, mathematics is assigned an active and even shaping role in the sciences, but at the same time, employing mathematics as a tool is taken to be independent from the possible mathematical structure of the objects under consideration. Hence the tool perspective is contextual rather than ontological. Furthermore, tool-use has to respect conditions like suitability, efficacy, optimality, and others. There is a spectrum of means that will normally differ in how well they serve particular purposes. The tool perspective underlines the inevitably provisional validity of mathematics: any tool can be adjusted, improved, or lose its adequacy upon changing practical conditions.