Applied Platonism
type: Item
instance of: scholarly article
title: Applied Platonism
zbMATH Open document ID: 1197.00012
published in: European Mathematical Society Newsletter
publication date: 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z
review text: The author considers himself to be an `applied Platonist'. By this he means somebody who believes in `the relevance of the analysis, qualitative or quantitative, of the deviations of nature from a mathematical reality, and the predictive power of it.' The author does not believe, however, in the existence of `applied mathematicians', thereby stressing the specificity of mathematics as a field.
reviewed by: Reinhard Siegmund-Schultze
Mathematics Subject Classification ID: 00A30
zbMATH DE Number: 5774735
zbMATH Keywords: Philosophy of mathematics
zbMATH Keywords: mathematical reality
zbMATH Keywords: applied mathematics
MaRDI profile type: Publication
author: Zvi Artstein
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