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Frédéric Patras

The Essence of Numbers

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This book considers the manifold possible approaches, past and present, to our understanding of the natural numbers. They are treated as epistemic objects: mathematical objects that have been subject to epistemological inquiry and attention throughout their history and whose conception has evolved accordingly. Although they are the simplest and most common mathematical objects, as this book reveals, they have a very complex nature whose study illuminates subtle features of the functioning of our thought. Using jointly history, mathematics and philosophy to grasp the essence of numbers, the reader is led through their various interpretations,… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-3-030-56699-9
  • EAN: 9783030566999
  • Produktnummer: 34844484
  • Verlag: Springer International Publishing
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
  • Seitenangabe: 188 S.
  • Masse: H23.5 cm x B15.5 cm x D1.0 cm 295 g
  • Auflage: 1st ed. 2020
  • Abbildungen: Paperback
  • Gewicht: 295

Über den Autor


Frédéric Patras, alumnus of the École Normale Supérieure and research director at CNRS, is a mathematician who has long been committed to philosophical studies. Also the author of a book on contemporary mathematical thinking (La pensée mathématique contemporaine), he has published and edited over a hundred works on various subjects. He is interested in what the philosophical tradition can bring to our current understanding of science and mathematics.

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