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Some physicists say”everything is quantum”? Why would they say so? And what is the meaning of this sentence? No one doubts that quantum theory is successful. But from this statement it does not...
10 December 2013 2,075 36 View
This is a very simple question but I am unable to explain it.
10 October 2013 5,378 2 View
As I think our life nothing without mathematics. Mathematics is everything.
10 October 2013 3,914 6 View
"I think many physicists, including myself, agree that there should be some complete description of the universe and the laws of nature. Implicit in that assumption is the universe is...
09 September 2013 1,752 69 View
For a Platonist, a theorem is a provable assertion about something that is external to us (written on the wall of a cave, as it were) and which is discovered by us. Otherwise, for a...
09 September 2013 7,702 96 View
What are the values of mathematics? (Not the value of mathematics!) I'm working on a paper exploring this - and I have distinguished overt values of maths (truth, purity$ and aesthetics/beauty)...
08 August 2013 1,820 10 View
Even with the advances in analysis, there are still notions such as vector spaces which we intuitively visualize in terms of three dimensions in order to grasps the implications of our analysis....
08 August 2013 5,985 5 View
01 August 2013 3,249 4 View
Modern mathematics is perhaps mostly application oriented. Is the philosophy of mathematics currently the same as it was earlier when application orientation was not so much important?
06 June 2013 910 15 View
Phenomena appear in their own sphere, id est Mesocosmic sphere, and we can read them. Since these can be directly observed, they can actually represent the only type of events that occur on the...
09 September 2012 2,113 1 View
Does it help us understand concepts of randomness and probability by considering the possibility that randomness may be involved in certain strange systems, where only one outcome is possible....
01 January 1970 1,685 0 View
1) There is some tradition in philosophy of mathematics starting at the late 19th century and culminating in the crisis of foundations at the beginning of the 20th century. Names here are...
01 January 1970 4,926 70 View
I'm especially interested in getting mathematicians' take on this. It seems to me that if fictionalism is true, then mathematics is not a science of discovering facts about the world but a method...
01 January 1970 992 2 View
Do you see a distinction between necessary existence and contingent existence, or do you think that all existence entails contingency by definition?
01 January 1970 8,133 3 View
Will the infinite related mathematical paradox families keep challenging us human for another 2500 years”?
01 January 1970 5,198 6 View
Someone knows about any paper about Philosophy of Mathematics Education in a post-colonial perspective? Or knows any researcher working in something like that?
01 January 1970 7,278 8 View
While studying about the roots of Indian philosophy and mathematics, I found that many philosophers consider the Vaisesika sutras of Kanada as the earliest exposition of `physics' (although I...
01 January 1970 2,916 2 View
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