It's Not Given Us to Foretell How Our Words Will Echo through the Ages: The Reception of Novel Ideas by Scientific Community

oleh: Valentin Bazhanov

Format: Article
Diterbitkan: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2009-01-01

Deskripsi

The paper reveals some mostly unnoticed and unexpected trends in reception of novel ideas in science. The author formulates certain principles of the reception of these ideas by scientific communities and justifies them by examples from modern mathematics and non-classical logic.