Butterfield, Jeremy (2014) Our Mathematical Universe? The Mathematics Millennium Project (U.K.), Cambridge, U.K..
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This is a discussion of some themes in Max Tegmark’s recent book, Our Mathematical Universe. It was written as a review for Plus Magazine, the online magazine of the UK’s national mathematics education and outreach project, the Mathematics Millennium Project (http://plus.maths.org/content/). Since some of the discussion---about symmetry breaking, and Pythagoreanism in the philosophy of mathematics---went beyond reviewing Tegmark’s book, the material was divided into three online articles. This version combines those three articles, and adds some other material, in particular a brief defence of quidditism about properties. It also adds some references, to other Plus articles as well as academic articles. But it retains the informal style of Plus.
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| Keywords: | inflationary cosmology, multiverse, varying constants, Everettian interpretation, Pythagoreanism, quidditism | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology General Issues > Laws of Nature Specific Sciences > Mathematics |
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| Depositing User: | Jeremy Butterfield | ||||||
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jun 2014 14:30 | ||||||
| Last Modified: | 05 Jul 2014 13:33 | ||||||
| Item ID: | 10760 | ||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Plus Magazine (online journal of the Mathematics Millennium Project) | ||||||
| Publisher: | The Mathematics Millennium Project (U.K.) | ||||||
| Official URL: | http://plus.maths.org/content/mathematical-univers... | ||||||
| Subjects: | Specific Sciences > Physics > Cosmology General Issues > Laws of Nature Specific Sciences > Mathematics |
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| Date: | 2014 | ||||||
| URI: | https://philsci-archive.pitt.edu/id/eprint/10760 |
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