Descartes on the limited usefulness of mathematics

DOI10.1007/S11229-017-1328-9zbMath1475.00012OpenAlexW2588749532MaRDI QIDQ2053959

Alan Nelson

Publication date: 30 November 2021

Published in: Synthese (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11229-017-1328-9

zbMATH Keywords

GalileomathematicsintuitionDescartesscientific revolutionCartesian deduction

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of mathematics in the 17th century (01A45)

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• Descartes-Agonistes. Physico-mathematics, method and corpuscular-mechanism 1618--33
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