Scientific Knowledge and Its Social ProblemsOxford University Press, 1973 - 449 páginas Analyses the work of science as the creation and investigation of problems, and demonstrates the role of choice and value-judgement, and the inevitability of error, in scientific research. |
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... mathematical form must satisfy criteria of ' rigour ' to the appropriate degree ; and the rigour of physicists ' mathematics is not , and need not be , in the same class as that of the pure mathe- maticians . Even in pure mathematics ...
... mathematical form must satisfy criteria of ' rigour ' to the appropriate degree ; and the rigour of physicists ' mathematics is not , and need not be , in the same class as that of the pure mathe- maticians . Even in pure mathematics ...
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... Mathematical Theory : a Study in the Sociology of Knowledge ' , Archive for History of Exact Sciences , 3 ( 1966 ) , 137–59 . 23 See John von Neumann , " The Mathematician ' ( 1947 ) , in Collected Works , i ( Pergamon , 1961 ) , 1-9 ...
... Mathematical Theory : a Study in the Sociology of Knowledge ' , Archive for History of Exact Sciences , 3 ( 1966 ) , 137–59 . 23 See John von Neumann , " The Mathematician ' ( 1947 ) , in Collected Works , i ( Pergamon , 1961 ) , 1-9 ...
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... mathematical common sense , in which ' matrix ' is as ordinary and ubiquitous a mathematical object as ' function ' . Yet there is little sign that the university mathematics teachers recognize the importance of this development ; and ...
... mathematical common sense , in which ' matrix ' is as ordinary and ubiquitous a mathematical object as ' function ' . Yet there is little sign that the university mathematics teachers recognize the importance of this development ; and ...
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Introduction | 1 |
Social Problems of Industrialized Science | 31 |
Science as Craftsmans Work | 75 |
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