The linguistic status of mathematics

Micah T. Ross ()
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Micah T. Ross: National Tsing Hua University

A chapter in Mathematics, Substance and Surmise, 2015, pp 257-285 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Mathematicians have often discussed mathematics as a language. Common linguistic categories have analogous mathematical objects. A comparison of linguistic categories and mathematical objects is developed with reference to the early history of mathematics.

Keywords: Natural Language; Mathematical Object; Grammatical Category; Modern Mathematic; Fundamental Operation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-21473-3_13

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