Aspects of Mathematical Explanation: Symmetry, Unity, and Salience

DOI10.1215/00318108-2749730MaRDI QIDQ3460428zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Marc Lange

Publication date 7 January 2016

Published in The Philosophical Review (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://semanticscholar.org/paper/6f73753ce403d759edb6853a55bb40f0b4b081e5

zbMATH Keywords

symmetryexplanatory proofs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Methodology of mathematics (00A35) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30)

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