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Stewart Shapiro • Philosophy of Science
(1983)
The subject of this paper is the philosophical problem of accounting for the relationship between mathematics and non-mathematical reality. The first section, devoted to the importance of the problem, suggests that many of the reasons for e...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1086/289138
Bill Barton • Springer eBooks
(2007)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-72859-9
Jim Tattersall, Victor Katz • College Mathematics Journal
(1994)
Part I. Ancient Mathematics 1. Egypt and Mesopotamia 1.1 Egypt 1.2 Mesopotamia 2. The Beginnings of Mathematics in Greece 2.1 The Earliest Greek Mathematics 2.2 The Time of Plato 2.3 Aristotle 3. Euclid 3.1 Introduction to the Elements 3.2 ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/2687626
Mark Colyvan • Choice Reviews Online
(2002)
Looks at the Quine–Putnam indispensability argument in the philosophy of mathematics. This argument urges us to place mathematical entities on the same ontological footing as other theoretical entities indispensable to our best scientific t...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.39-2845
John Maynard Smith • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(1968)
This is a lucid introduction to some of the mathematical ideas which are useful to biologists. Professor Maynard Smith introduces the reader to the ways in which biological problems can be expressed mathematically, and shows how the mathema...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511565144
Jianjun Cao, Bailing An, Enran Hou, Fuzhang Wang • Frontiers in Physics
(2026)
This study presents a novel local meshless approach for solving one-dimensional Fisher’s equation, combining a local scheme, Gaussian radial basis functions (G-RBF), and a collocation technique. The method leverages the Gaussian basis’s non...
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DOI: 10.3389/fphy.2026.1792548
Gabriela OPAIT • Annals of Dunarea de Jos University. Fascicle I : Economics and Applied Informatics
(2021)
The victorious spirit, which predominates in all the provinces of the United States of
America, penetrates the scale of values in rise concerning the real G.D.P. The symbiosis of
the progresses witnessed by the American nation along of th...
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DOI: 10.35219/eai15840409181
Brent Davis, Elaine Simmt • Educational Studies in Mathematics
(2006)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10649-006-2372-4
Paul Richard Halmos • American Mathematical Monthly
(1980)
(1980). The Heart of Mathematics. The American Mathematical Monthly: Vol. 87, No. 7, pp. 519-524....
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/00029890.1980.11995081
Michael D. Resnik • Choice Reviews Online
(1998)
Mathematics as a Science of Patterns is the definitive exposition of a system of ideas about the nature of mathematics which Michael Resnik has been elaborating for a number of years. In calling mathematics a science he implies that it has ...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5860/choice.35-4549
Jeffrey L. Nunemacher, George P. Lakoff, Rafael E. Núñez • American Mathematical Monthly
(2002)
This book is about mathematical ideas, about what mathematics means-and why. Abstract ideas, for the most part, arise via conceptual metaphor-metaphorical ideas projecting from the way we function in the everyday physical world. Where Mathe...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.2307/3072449
Christian Greiffenhagen • British Journal of Sociology
(2014)
Sociology has been accused of neglecting the importance of material things in human life and the material aspects of social practices. Efforts to correct this have recently been made, with a growing concern to demonstrate the materiality of...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1468-4446.12037
Steven R. Finch • Cambridge University Press eBooks
(2003)
This is an outstanding scholarly attempt to bring together all significant mathematical constants in one place....
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/cbo9780511550447
Bohan Li, Dan Xie, Wenbin Yan • Journal of High Energy Physics
(2024)
Abstract Gaiotto and Witten found that one can construct 3d N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 Chern-Simons matter theories by using N $$ \mathcal{N} $$ = 4 SCFT whose momentum map of global symmetries satisfy special condition. Usually, one uses free...
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DOI: 10.1007/JHEP02(2024)178
• Routledge eBooks
(2013)
Contents: Preface. Part I: P. Cobb, Sociological and Anthropological Perspectives on Mathematics Learning. P. Cobb, B. Jaworski, N. Presmeg, Emergent and Sociocultural Views of Mathematical Activity. J. Voigt, Negotiation of Mathematical Me...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.4324/9780203053126
Eva Jablonka • Springer eBooks
(2003)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0273-8_4
Barbara Edwards, Michael B. Ward (2008)
Introduction One of the earliest subjects of undergraduate mathematics education research was students' difficulties in writing formal mathematical proofs. Some research focused on the heuristics involved in proof-writing, but early attempt...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5948/upo9780883859759.018
George Pólya • CERN Document Server (European Organization for Nuclear Research)
(1954)
This is a guide to the practical art of plausible reasoning, this book has relevance in every field of intellectual activity. Professor Polya, a world-famous mathematician from Stanford University, uses mathematics to show how hunches and g...
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William P.HG Thurston • Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society
(1994)
This essay on the nature of proof and progress in mathematics was stimulated by the article of Jaffe and Quinn, "Theoretical Mathematics: Toward a cultural synthesis of mathematics and theoretical physics".Their article raises interesting i...
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/s0273-0979-1994-00502-6
Michael N Fried • Science & Education
(2001)
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/a:1011205014608