Mathematics in Western Culture
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1953
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, USA
- Retrieved
- Jun 8, 2012
- ISBN
- i45JDXEfwG
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Empirical Reality is All Probability in Mathematics
The stone that Dr. Johnson once kicked to demonstrate the reality of matter has become dissipated in a diffuse distribution of mathematical probabilities. The ladder that Descartes, Galileo, Newton, and Leibniz erected in order to scale the heavens rests upon a continually shifting, unstable foundation.