Communities of Dialogue Russian and Ukrainian Émigrés in Modernist Prague

Repository | Book | Chapter

188909

The growth of knowledge in mathematics

Ilkka Niiniluoto

pp. 193-210

Abstract

»Some universities have established chairs for ‘the history and philosophy of mathematics’; it is hard for me to imagine what those two subjects can have in common.» (Weil, 1980, p. 230.)

Publication details

Published in:

Niiniluoto Ilkka (1984) Is science progressive?. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 193-210

DOI: 10.1007/978-94-017-1978-0_8

Full citation:

Niiniluoto Ilkka (1984) The growth of knowledge in mathematics, In: Is science progressive?, Dordrecht, Springer, 193–210.