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MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE

edited by Ronald E Mickens (Clark Atlanta University)

The purpose of this review volume is to present the opinions of a number of distinguished individuals who have given careful thought as to why mathematics is so "unreasonably effective" when applied to the analysis of the natural sciences.


Contents:

  • On the Effectiveness and Limits of Mathematics in Physics (A O Barut)
  • Why is the Universe Knowable? (P C W Davies)
  • Mathematics in Sociology: Cinderella's Carriage or Pumpkin? (P Doreian)
  • Fundamental Roles of Mathematics in Science (D Greenspan)
  • Inner Vision, Outer Truth (R Hersh)
  • Mathematics and the Natural Order (W G Holladay)
  • A Few Systems-Colored Views of the World (Yi Lin)
  • The Reasonable Effectiveness of Mathematical Reasoning (S Mac Lane)
  • Three Aspects of the Effectiveness of Mathematics in Science (L Narens & R D Luce)
  • Mathematics and Natural Philosophy (R L Oldershaw)
  • Mathematics and the Language of Nature (F David Peat)
  • The Reason Within and the Reason Without (J Polkinghorne)
  • The Modelling Relation and Natural Law (R Rosen)
  • Structure and Effectiveness (L V Shelton)
  • Psychology and Mathematics (J T Townsend & H Kadlec)
  • Ariadne's Thread: The Role of Mathematics in Physics (H C von Baeyer)
  • The Disproportionate Response (B J West)
  • The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences (E P Wigner)
  • The Effectiveness of Mathematics in Fundamental Physics (A Zee)


Readership: Mathematicians, natural and social scientists, philosophers, and historians of science.

352pp Pub. date: Aug 1990
ISBN 981-02-0233-4 US$107 / £74
ISBN 981-02-0234-2(pbk) US$61 / £38


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Updated on 19 August 2008