Mathematics and the Search for Knowledge
1st Edition
Published on 20. November 1986
272 pages
978-0-19-802061-5 (ISBN)
Description
In Mathematics and the Search for Knowledge, Kline examines the development of mathematics as our most powerful instrument for exploring the physical world. He probes our existing world of mathematics and illuminates its workings as a science enabling us to penetrate the secrets of the worlds natural phenomena.
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Content
- Intro
- Contents
- Historical Overview: Is There an External World?
- I. The Failings of the Senses and Intuition
- II. The Rise and Role of Mathematics
- III. The Astronomical Worlds of the Greeks
- IV. The Heliocentric Theory of Copernicus and Kepler
- V. Mathematics Dominates Physical Science
- VI. Mathematics and the Mystery of Gravitation
- VII. Mathematics and the Imperceptible Electromagnetic World
- VIII. A Prelude to the Theory of Relativity
- IX. The Relativistic World
- X. The Dissolution of Matter: Quantum Theory
- XI. The Reality of Mathematical Physics
- XII. Why Does Mathematics Work?
- XIII. Mathematics and Nature's Behavior
- Bibliography
- Index
- A
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- Q
- R
- S
- T
- U
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- W
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