Mathematics as a Tool Tracing New Roles of Mathematics in the Sciences /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Lenhard, Johannes (Editor), Carrier, Martin (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 327
• Subjects: Environment.; History.; Philosophy and science.; Mathematics.; Environmental sciences.; Math. Appl. in Environmental Science.; History of Science.; Philosophy of Science.; History of Mathematical Sciences.

This book puts forward a new role for mathematics in the natural sciences. In the traditional understanding, a strong viewpoint is advocated, on the one hand, according to which mathematics is used for truthfully expressing laws of nature and thus for rendering the rational structure of the world. I...