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The mathematical experience Gian-Carlo Rota, Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company

Re: "math exists independent of the universe": For an alternative view, see the concluding chapter of Davis & Hersh's The Mathematical Experience: "Mathematics is not the study of an ideal, preexisting reality. From my experience, the public transit is pretty bad there. To master mathematics is to master an intangible view, it is to acquire the skill of a virtuoso who cannot pin his performance on criteria. The good thing is, this gave me plenty of time to read Richard Kaye's recent book, The Mathematics of Logic (Cambridge University Press 2007). Scientists, mathematicians, and philosophers prefer simpler explanations and shorter stories; and what could be simpler than the null universe? Davis English | New Ed edition (August 30, 1990) | ISBN: 0140134743 | Pages: 464 | DJVU | 11.6 MB The book should be regarded not as a compression but rather as an impression. Join aNobii to see if your friends read it, and discover similar books! The Mathematical Experience by Philip J. Math is bogus, and used by science to make . Like The Mathematical Experience ? Hofstadter is not inimical to mathematics as the lingua franca of science, which we think is detrimental to human thought, and a contrivance that is unreal, a concoction that gives scientists a mantle of authority that it doesn't really deserve. Obviously the center of metaphysics. Because, well, maybe there needn't have been.