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Mathematics, form and function is a survey of the whole of mathematics, including its origins and deep structure, by the american mathematician saunders mac lane contents 1 mathematics and human activities. Maclanes book is a very strong overview to the philosophy of mathematics that speaks to the practical applied side. It relies on a storyline to form the backbone of the. Other current publications in the philosophy of mathematics, from putnam 6 to quine t to wang lo, show little new insight and no new input from mathematics.
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Mathematics, form and function is a survey of the whole of mathematics, including its origins and deep structure, by the american mathematician saunders mac lane. This book records my efforts over the past four years to capture in words a description of the form and function of mathematics, as a background for the philosophy of mathematics. Pdf jects, the unity was more abstractly philosophical and logical than mathematical. Mathematics form and function by saunders maclane 2011. S mac lane, mathematics at the university of chicago. Category theory, which saunders had a strong hand in inventing has been dragged out of the dustbin of curious arcane thinking and thrust into the light as concepts of functional programming have grabbed it by storm since 2010.
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