Epistemology
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See: Math Concepts, Math Intuition, Math answers Understand mathematics in its entirety, how the various areas, concepts and truths of math unfold. 2017 Proposal: A Research Program for the Big Picture in Mathematics which I submitted, unsuccessfully, for a European Philosophy of Science Association fellowship to study at the Munich Center for Mathematical Philosophy.
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I am also studying the thinking of mathematicians who take a broader view of mathematics. The above overview has me want to focus on perspectives. They express how geometry restructures analysis with algebra. And how do they relate to objects, theorems, etc.? The above diagram relates constructions, equations and instructions. These three remind me of the methods of proof, which similarly consist of equations (bijection, substitution), instructions (induction, separation of cases) and constructions (algorithm construction, construction), and distinguish analytic continuum and algebraic discreteness, as with restructuring. Thus we may have a network of equations, a sequence of instructions, and a hierarchy of constructions, which are restructured, from analysis to algebra. Constructions, equations and instructions also remind me of category theory, type theory and proof theory, as with the Curry-Howard-Lambek correspondence. |