id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt work_ltvy5ua4ezfzdlk7yrhlfiz46i MarĂ­a de Paz Introduction 2020 4 .pdf application/pdf 1889 133 50 The usual conception of the philosophy of mathematics is based on the mid-twentieth century configuration of the discipline, giving pre-eminence in an almost exclusive way to Up until the nineteenth century, mathematics included mechanics arrangement of key mathematical topics that Kummer and Weierstrass established at Berlin included mechanics (taught by Kummer).2 It could not have been otherwise: in 1887, The problem of the applicability of maths, and of the origins of mathematical methods, Yet the usual formulation of the problem of 'applicability' presupposes the 'modern' conception of mathematics (emphasizing a reconstruction of pure maths in terms of abstract axiom systems and the map or classification of maths in the Newtonian age, and to the central role of mechanics in particular, immediately highlights the phenomenon of intended applications, i.e., of As Nicolas Michel shows, Chasles's preference for synthetic geometry over analytical calculations raises the question of the role of ./cache/work_ltvy5ua4ezfzdlk7yrhlfiz46i.pdf ./txt/work_ltvy5ua4ezfzdlk7yrhlfiz46i.txt