Philosophy of Mathematics (With reference to Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Popper)
Authors
MUHAMMAD JAWWAD and RIFFAT IQBAL
Abstract
Philosophy of Mathematics starts with a simple question - What Mathematics is all about? What Mathematical numbers are? Unlike Physics, Mathematics primarily is not about matter and energy, it is not about the study of plants and animals like Biology. It is not linguistic in the ordinary sense of the word. It is not about society primarily like Sociology, Political science, or Anthropology. Great philosophers like Plato, Aristotle, Russell, Whitehead, Frege, and Popper have been trying to understand and make other people understand the essence of the Ontology of Mathematics. This article has attempted to understand the different and original ideas of great philosophers (Plato, Aristotle, Kant, and Popper) and try to interpret and share their views about the Ontology of mathematical numbers, theorems, equations, etc.
