Christopher Pincock, Mathematics and Scientific Representation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2012, £41.99 (hardback), 352 pp., ISBN: 978-0-19-975710-7

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 66 (3):695-699 (2015)
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