SYNTHETIC PHILOSOPHY OF CONTEMPORARY MATHEMATICS by Fernando Zalamea, Zachary Fraser (Trans) ( 9780956775016 )

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SYNTHETIC PHILOSOPHY OF CONTEMPORARY MATHEMATICS

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Fernando Zalamea, Zachary Fraser (Trans)

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0956775012

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30 August, 2012

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394

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A panoramic survey of the vast spectrum of modern and contemporary mathematics and the new philosophical possibilities they suggest. The author challenges philosophy's self-imposed ignorance of the 'making of mathematics', providing detailed case studies and setting out a sophisticated new epistemology.

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A panoramic survey of the vast spectrum of modern and contemporary mathematics and the new philosophical possibilities they suggest, this book gives the inquisitive non-specialist an insight into the conceptual transformations of contemporary mathematics. The predominant analytic approach has effectively divorced philosophy from the real practice of mathematics and the profound conceptual shifts in the discipline over the last century. Building on the work of the few exceptional thinkers to have engaged with the 'real mathematics' of their era, Zalamea challenges philosophy's self-imposed ignorance of the 'making of mathematics'. Detailed case studies examine the greatest creators in the field, mapping the central advances accomplished in mathematics over the last half-century. Zalamea sets out a sophisticated new epistemology that avails itself of the powerful conceptual instruments forged by the mathematical mind, but which have until now remained largely neglected by philosophers.

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