What is Mathematics?

Johan Hoffman (), Claes Johnson () and Anders Logg ()
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Johan Hoffman: New York University, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Claes Johnson: Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Computational Mathematics
Anders Logg: Chalmers University of Technology, Department of Computational Mathematics

Chapter 4 in Dreams of Calculus, 2004, pp 19-33 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The question of the ultimate foundations and the ultimate meaning of mathematics remains open; we do not know in what direction it will find its final solution or whether a final objective answer may be expected at all. “Mathematizing” may well be a creative activity of man, like language or music, of primary originality, whose historical decisions defy complete objective rationalization. (Weyl) The universal mathematics is, so to speak, the logic of the imagination. (Leibniz)

Keywords: Price Option; Information Society; Automate Computation; Musical Score; Mass Consumption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-18586-1_4

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