However perplexing this idea appears against the backdrop of the sort of mechanical picture favored by reformists, it seems entirely plausible once we recognize that mathematics demands a distinctive kind of thought.
What was distinctive of the Greeks' contribution to mathematics—and what in effect made them the creators of "mathematics," as the term is usually understood was its development as a theoretical discipline.
For these reasons mathematics poses problems of a quite distinctive kind for philosophy.
Parts of Classes (1991a) and "Mathematics is Megethology" (1993d) consider the distinctive philosophical problems raised by set theory.
And by doing so, they pave the way for the development of a distinctive form of nominalism in the philosophy of mathematics.
Many important concepts and equations in the sciences can be difficult to visualize, but these images are both distinctive and iconic in the history of science and mathematics.
The development of distinctive new elements in the human and social sciences in conjunction with mathematics and computer science to produce cognitive science, artificial intelligence, operations research, and so forth has also been charted.
Benchmarks: Knows how cultures influence the characteristics of regions; Understands how human characteristics make specific regions of the world distinctive Mathematics Standard 1- Uses a variety of strategies in the problem-solving process.
4. Model with mathematics.
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