MATHEMATICS

Sabtu, 13 Oktober 2012

Wilkins’ and Hempel’s Notions of the Nature of Mathematics

By Marsigit
Yogyakarta State University

Wilkins, D.R., 2004, described some definitions of what is mathematics from different mathematicians.


The logician Whitehead 1 perceived that mathematics in its widest significance is the development of all types of formal, necessary, deductive reasoning; Boole 2 thought that it is not the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number

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