Critical Review of Mathematics and Scientific Representation - Christopher Pincock, Mathematics and Scientific Representation. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2012), xiv+330 pp., $65.00 (cloth)

Sean Walsh; Eleanor Knox; Adam Caulton

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Critical Review of Mathematics and Scientific Representation - Christopher Pincock, Mathematics and Scientific Representation. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2012), xiv+330 pp., $65.00 (cloth) [Book Review]

Philosophy of Science 81 (3):460-469 (2014)

Authors	Eleanor Knox King's College London Sean Walsh University of Minnesota, Duluth
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