Dirac and the dispensability of mathematics

DOI10.1016/j.shpsb.2005.03.002zbMath1222.81048OpenAlexW2027304290MaRDI QIDQ640221

Otávio Bueno

Publication date: 17 October 2011

Published in: Studies in History and Philosophy of Science. Part B. Studies in History and Philosophy of Modern Physics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.shpsb.2005.03.002

zbMATH Keywords

quantum mechanicsDirac delta functionantimatterindispensability argumentapplication of mathematics

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophy of mathematics (00A30) History of mathematics in the 20th century (01A60) History of quantum theory (81-03) General and philosophical questions in quantum theory (81P05) Biographies, obituaries, personalia, bibliographies (01A70) Physics (00A79)

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An Inferential Conception of the Application of Mathematics ⋮ A defense of second-order logic ⋮ Truth, Trivialism, and Perceptual Illusions ⋮ Observability, Unobservability and the Copenhagen Interpretation in Dirac's Methodology of Physics

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