Reality of Numbers: A Physicalist's Philosophy of Mathematics

By John Bigelow

Challenging the myth that mathematical objects can be defined into existence, Bigelow here employs Armstrong's metaphysical materialism to cast new light on mathematics. He identifies natural, real, and imaginary numbers and sets with specified physical properties and relations and, by so doing, draws mathematics back from its sterile, abstract exile into the midst of the physical world.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198249578
• ISBN13: 9780198249573
• Release Date: September 1988
• Publisher: Clarendon Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 8.9"