研究生英语科技英语阅读与翻译6.pptVIP

*;1.What is it that makes mathematics mathematics?;2.What are the precise characteristics that make mathematics into a discipline that is so central to every advanced civilization, especially our own?;3.Many explanations have been attempted.;4.One of these sees mathematics as the ultimate in rational expression; in fact, the expression “the light of reason” could be used to refer to mathematics.;5.From this point of view, the distinguishing aspect of mathematics would be the precision of its idea and its systematic use of the most stringent logical criteria.;6.In this view, mathematics offers a vision of a purely logical world.;7.One way of expressing this view is by saying that the natural world obeys the rules of logic and, since mathematics is the most perfectly logical of disciplines, it is not surprising that mathematics provides such a faithful description of reality.;8.This view, that the deepest truth of mathematics is encoded in its formal, deductive structure, is definitely not the point of view that this book is assumes.;9.On the contrary, the book takes the position that the logical structure, while important, is insufficient even to begin to account for what is really going on in mathematical practice, much less to account for the enormously successful applications of mathematics to almost all fields of human thought.;译：恰恰相反的是，本书认为逻辑结构固然重要，但是在数学的实际应用中仅凭逻辑结构是远远不够的，也更不能说仅凭它就可以产生在几乎所有人类思想领域通过对数学进行应用而取得的巨大成功。;10.This book offers another vision of mathematics, a vision in which the logical is merely one dimension of a larger picture.;11.This larger picture has room for a number of factors that have traditionally been omitted from a description of mathematics and are translogical---that is, beyond logic---though not illogical.;12.Thus, there is a discussion of things like ambiguity,contradiction, and paradox that, surprisingly, also have an essential role to play in mathematical practice.;13.This flies in the face of conventional wisdom that would see the rol