Otávio Bueno* and Steven French.** Applying Mathematics: Immersion,Inference, Interpretation. Oxford University Press, 2018. ISBN: 978- 0-19-881504-4 (hbk) 978-0-19-185286-2 (ebk). doi:10.1093/oso/9780198815044. 001.0001. Pp. xvii + 257.

摘要

Otávio Bueno and Steven French have produced a readable, informative, and compelling account of mathematics as it is deployed in physical theory. The book is built on their previous work on the partial structures framework,mathematical application, and philosophy of (quantum) physics.