Stewart Shapiro, Thinking About Mathematics: The.
Thinking about Mathematics The Philosophy of Mathematics by Stewart Shapiro and Publisher OUP Oxford. Save up to 80% by choosing the eTextbook option for ISBN: 9780192638021, 0192638025. The print version of this textbook is ISBN: 9780192893062, 0192893068.
But Shapiro usually does do a good job of summarizing complex thoughts. This book whetted my appetite for more and I plan on continuing thinking about these things and hopefully take some classes in mathematical logic and philosophy.
Bloom classified thinking into six levels: Memory (the least rigorous), Comprehension, Application, Analysis, Synthesis and Evaluation (requiring the highest level of thinking). Sanders (1966) separated the Comprehension level into two categories, Translation and Interpretation, to create a seven level taxonomy which is quite useful in mathematics.
If mathematics is regarded as a science, then the philosophy of mathematics can be regarded as a branch of the philosophy of science, next to disciplines such as the philosophy of physics and the philosophy of biology. However, because of its subject matter, the philosophy of mathematics occupies a special place in the philosophy of science.
Platonism about mathematics (or mathematical platonism) is the metaphysical view that there are abstract mathematical objects whose existence is independent of us and our language, thought, and practices.Just as electrons and planets exist independently of us, so do numbers and sets. And just as statements about electrons and planets are made true or false by the objects with which they are.
Mathematics has a number of very useful benefits to our mind if we go into its study. It develops our reasoning, helps us to have analytical thinking, quickens our mind, generates practicality and also its use can be applied in the day to day. The mathematics is present in our daily lives.
A POTPOURRI OF QUESTIONS AND ATTEMPTED ANSWERS T HE purpose of this chapter is to sketch the major problems and some of the major positions in the interpretive enterprise of the philosophy of mathematics. What questions must a philosophy of. Stewart Shapiro is not the same as 'Stewart Shapiro'.