Mathematical theories as models

Michele Friend

pp. 291-307

in: Bharath Sriraman (ed), Humanizing mathematics and its philosophy, Basel, Birkhäuser, 2017

Abstract

The thoughts in this paper follow a suggestion by Reuben Hersh that pluralists think of mathematical theories as models of other parts of mathematics. Through this lens, the totality of "mathematics' is then a game of interpretation of one theory by another. As a discipline, mathematics is sui generis.

Cited authors

Hersh Reuben