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This book expounds a system of ideas about the nature of mathematics which Michael Resnik has been elaborating for a number of years. In calling mathematics a science he implies that it has a factual subject-matter and that mathematical knowledge is on a par with other scientific knowledge; in calling it a science of patterns he expresses his commitment to a structuralist philosophy of mathematics. He links this to a defense of realism about the metaphysics of mathematics--the view that mathematics is about things that ...

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Mathematics as a Science of Patterns 2000, Oxford University Press, USA, Oxford : Oxford ; New York

ISBN-13: 9780198250142

Revised edition

Trade paperback

Mathematics as a Science of Patterns 1997, Clarendon Press, Oxford, England

ISBN-13: 9780198236085

Hardcover