" Faire résulter les notions de l'analyse de l'observation des faits " : the mathematician as a natural scientist (1850-1900)
Update: 2012-06-08
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Experimentation and observation are usually associated with natural sciences while formulas and computations appear to be the trade mark of mathematics. Historians of science have even suggested that the birth of modern science occurred with its divorce from mathematical disciplines, precisely over the question of (Baconian) observation. However, as late as the nineteenth century and at a time when mathematics was about to be identified with the free creation of concepts and the purification of methods, several mathematicians – and these far from marginal practioners – claimed that mathematics was a natural science and, as such, had to deal with experimentation and observation for the very definition of its practices and objects. This talk will discuss some of these mathematical observations and the way they are understood as providing mathematical knowledge.
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