Mathematical Structure: Knowledge, Representation and Interpretation
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https://doi.org/10.12775/ths.2002.021Keywords
mathematics, abstraction processes, analogy, indecomposablesAbstract
The main theme of this article is to show the abstraction processes of mathematics allow hierarchies of structure, in which for example a ‘comparison’ becomes an object and so allows for methods of comparison themselves to be compared. Further, a representation of an object need not be unique, and the comparison of representations is important for our understanding and use of an abstraction process.References
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