About this title: Proofs and Refutations is essential reading for all those interested in the methodology, the philosophy and the history of mathematics. Much of the book takes the form of a discussion between a teacher and his students. They propose various solutions to some mathematical problems and investigate the strengths and weaknesses of these solutions. Their discussion (which mirrors certain real developments in the history of mathematics) raises some philosophical problems and some problems about the nature of mathematical discovery or creativity. Imre Lakatos is concerned throughout to combat the ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780521290388ISBN:0521290384
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1976
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780521290388ISBN:0521290384
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780521290388ISBN:0521290384
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Description: New. Proofs and Refutations is essential reading for all those interested in the methodology, the philosophy and the history of mathematics. Imre Lakatos shows that mathematics grows through a process of the successive improvement of creative hypotheses by attempts to 'Äòprove'Äô them and by criticism of these attempts: the logic of proofs and refutations. read more
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, UK
ISBN-13:9780521290388ISBN:0521290384
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1976
ISBN-13:9780521210782ISBN:052121078X
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Publisher: Cambridge University Press, UK
ISBN-13:9780521290388ISBN:0521290384
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"agonizingly chewy but well worth the effort. i read it originally because, at the time, i was taking a class on the Euler Characteristic, but reread it a year ago to tackle the more subtle issues of mathematical proof-and-assumption with which it so wittily grapples.
nevermind that amazon claims it was published three years after i bought it. weird."
"By far one of the best philosophical texts I've read. It takes a theory about the sides of a polyhedron by Euler and uses dialogue form to show how the methods of inquiry of a handful of different theoreticians fall apart when attempting to prove or disprove the proposition. I've never gotten past Algebra II, and I still understood most of the book, though to be sure I missed out on the bits of calculus here and there, and didn't know enough about math to discern which dialogue participant stood for which philosopher. Definitely worthwhile."
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