Structures, fictions, and the explanatory epistemology of mathematics in science: Christopher Pincock: Mathematics and scientific representation. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012, 330pp, $65.00 HB

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Critical notice of C. Pincock's Mathematics and Scientific Representation (2012).

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