1st Edition

The Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Laws Another Copernican Revolution

By Noel Curran Copyright 1997
218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

218 Pages
by Routledge

First published in 1997, this title is a sequel to Dr Noel Curran's first book The Logical Universe: The Real Universe (published by Ashgate under the Avebury imprint, 1994). The philosophy of mathematics in this book is based on ideas of Sir William Rowan Hamilton on the ordinal character of numbers, the real numbers, the measure numbers, scalar numbers and the extension to vectors. The final... Read more

1. Introduction. 2. The Concept of Number. 3. Number Systems. 4. Algebra – the Science of Pure Time. 5. Geometry. 6. Measurement and Numbers. 7. Quaternions versus Vector Analysis. 8. The Unification of Physics.

Biography

Noel Curran