Applied Platonism (Q988035)
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5774735
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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 5774735 |
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Applied Platonism (English)
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24 August 2010
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The author considers himself to be an `applied Platonist'. By this he means somebody who believes in `the relevance of the analysis, qualitative or quantitative, of the deviations of nature from a mathematical reality, and the predictive power of it.' The author does not believe, however, in the existence of `applied mathematicians', thereby stressing the specificity of mathematics as a field.
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Philosophy of mathematics
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mathematical reality
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applied mathematics
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