Mathematics without numbers: towards a modal-structural interpretation
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Main Author: Hellman, Geoffrey (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Clarendon Press c1989
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (p. [145]-150) and index
Modal logic is combined with notions of part/whole (mereology) enabling a systematic interpretation of ordinary mathematical statements as asserting what would be the case in any (suitable) structure there (logically) might be, e.g. for number theory, functional analysis, algebra, pure geometry, etc
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (ix, 154 p.)
ISBN:019152011X
0198249349
9780191520112
9780198249344