On the Specialness of Special Functions (The Nonrandom Effusions of the Divine Mathematician)

DOI10.1093/BJPS/AXM007MaRDI QIDQ5426537zbMATHOpenAlexFDO

Authors Robert W. Batterman

Publication date 12 November 2007

Published in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL http://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/2629/1/special-functions.pdf

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Physics (00A79) Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of special functions (33-03)

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