Applying mathematics : immersion, inference, interpretation / Otávio Bueno and Steven French.

Applying mathematics : immersion, inference, interpretation / Otávio Bueno and Steven French.

First edition.

9780191852862 (electronic book)

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

English

1 online resource : illustrations.

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How is that when scientists need some piece of mathematics through which to frame their theory, it is there to hand? Bueno and French offer a new approach to the puzzle of the applicability of mathematics, through a detailed examination of a series of case studies from the history of twentieth-century physics.

How is that when scientists need some piece of mathematics through which to frame their theory, it is there to hand? Bueno and French offer a new approach to the puzzle of the applicability of mathematics, through a detailed examination of a series of case studies from the history of twentieth-century physics.

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