Matter, imagination, and geometry
Dmitri V. Nikulin, Dmitri Nikulin · 2002
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About the book
"This book considers conditions of applicability of mathematics to the study of natural phenomena. The possibility of such an application is one of the fundamental assumptions underlying the enormous theoretical and practical success of modern science. Addressing problems of matter, substance, infinity, number, structure of cognitive faculties, imagination, and of construction of mathematical object, Dmitri Nikulin examines mathematical (geometrical) objects in their relation to geometrical or intelligible matter and to imagination. The author explores questions in the history of philosophy and science, particularly in late antiquity and early modernity. The focus is on key thinkers Plotinus and Descartes (with the occasional appearance of Plato, Aristotle, Euclid, Proclus, Newton and others), in whom the fundamental presuppositions of ripe antiquity and of early modernity find their definite expression."--Jacket.
Book details
- Year
- 2002
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Ashgate Publishing
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 304
- ISBN
- 9780754615743
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