Reasoning with the Infinite

From the Closed World to the Mathematical Universe

Michel Blay (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

226 Seiten

1999
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-05835-1 (ISBN)

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This text traces the origins of the mathematization of the world, from Galileo to Newton and Laplace, and considers the profound philosophical consequences of submitting the infinite to rational analysis.

Until the Scientific Revolution, the nature and motions of heavenly objects were mysterious and unpredictable. The Scientific Revolution was revolutionary in part because it saw the advent of many mathematical tools - chief among them the calculus - that natural philosophers could use to explain and predict these cosmic motions. Michel Blay traces the origins of this mathematization of the world, from Galileo to Newton and Laplace, and considers the profound philosophical consequences of submitting the infinite to rational analysis.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	10.12.1999
Übersetzer	M. B. DeBevoise
Sprache	englisch
Maße	16 x 23 mm
Gewicht	397 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Mathematik / Informatik ► Mathematik ► Geschichte der Mathematik
	Naturwissenschaften
ISBN-10	0-226-05835-2 / 0226058352
ISBN-13	978-0-226-05835-1 / 9780226058351
Zustand	Neuware