Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Laws - Another Copernican Revolution

List of contents

1. Introduction. 2. The Concept of Number. 3. Number Systems. 4. Algebra – the Science of Pure Time. 5. Geometry. 6. Measurement and Numbers. 7. Quaternions versus Vector Analysis. 8. The Unification of Physics.

About the author

Noel Curran

Summary

First published in 1997, this title's philosophy of mathematics is based on ideas of Sir William Rowan Hamilton on the ordinal character of numbers, the real numbers, the measure numbers, scalar numbers and the extension to vectors.

Product details

• Authors: Curran, Noel Curran
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.05.2019
• EAN: 9781138337831
• ISBN: 978-1-138-33783-1
• No. of pages: 218
• Series: Routledge Revivals; Routledge Revivals
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, MEDICAL / Nursing / Fundamentals & Skills, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Nursing fundamentals and skills, Nursing fundamentals & skills