Concept
Applied mathematics
Overview
discipline of mathematics
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The exercise of logical reason is always concerned with these absolutely general conditions. In its broadest sense, the discovery of mathematics is the discovery that the totality of these general abstract conditions, which are concurrently applicable to the relationships among the entities of any one concrete occasion, are themselves inter-connected in the manner of a pattern with a key to it. This pattern of…
Alfred North Whitehead, Science and the modern world
States what Applied mathematics is.
Experience is then thought to be confined to the senses and appetites; to a mere material world, while thinking proceeds from a higher faculty (of reason), and is occupied with spiritual or at least literary things. So, oftentimes, a sharp distinction is made between pure mathematics as a peculiarly fit subject matter of thought (since it has nothing to do with physical existences) and applied mathematics, which has…
John Dewey, Democracy and Education
States what Applied mathematics is; names Applied mathematics.
The first form of discipline is not in its essence logical at all. It is the power of clearly grasping abstract ideas, and of relating them to particular circumstances. In other words, the first use of mathematics is to strengthen the power of abstract thought. I repeat that in its essence this has nothing to do with logic, though as a matter of fact a logical discipline is the best method of producing the desired…
Alfred North Whitehead, The organisation of thought, educational and scientific
Close in meaning to Applied mathematics; the term itself is not named.
Philosophers who discussed Applied mathematics
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Place in the tradition
Part of Philosophy of mathematics.