An Axiomatic Theory of Functions and Fluents

Karl Menger
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Karl Menger: llinois Institute of Technology

A chapter in Selecta Mathematica, 2003, pp 205-224 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The topic of this paper is a theory of some basic applications of mathematics to science. Part I deals with concepts of pure mathematics such as the logarithm, the second power, and the product, and with substitutions in the realm of those functions. Part II is devoted to scientific material such as time, gas pressure, coordinates — objects that Newton called fluents. Part III formulates articulate rules for the interrelation of fluents by functions. Properly relativized, the latter play that connective role for which Leibniz originated the term function.

Date: 2003
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7091-6045-9_22

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