Apr
14
2018
Mathematics as a Tool: Tracing New Roles of Mathematics in the Sciences By Johannes Lenhard, Martin Carrier
English | PDF | 2017 | 286 Pages | ISBN : 3319544683 | 3.14 MB
This book puts forward a new role for mathematics in the natural sciences. In the traditional understanding, a strong viewpoint is advocated, on the one hand, according to which mathematics is used for truthfully expressing laws of nature and thus for rendering the rational structure of the world. In a weaker understanding, many deny that these fundamental laws are of an essentially mathematical character, and suggest that mathematics is merely a convenient tool for systematizing observational knowledge.
