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MatNat explores the historical origins of the mathematical understanding of nature, focusing on how early thinkers like the Pythagoreans and Plato justified their mathematical worldview. It examines the relationship between abstract mathematical truths and the variable phenomena observed in the natural world.
‘The Book of Nature is written in geometrical characters’, wrote Galileo in 1623.
The view that mathematics provides the language of nature has been an axiom of physics since Copernicus, Galileo and Kepler.
Behind the founders of modern science stood, by their own admission, ‘our genuine masters, Plato and Pythagoras’ (Kepler 1597).
But how did the early Pythagoreans and Plato conceive of and justify their mathematical world view?
MatNat investigates the question of the historical origin of the…
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