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Guillermo Restrepo and José L. Villaveces
Discrete Mathematical Chemistry: Social Aspects of its Emergence and Reception
We first show some successes of discrete mathematical chemistry (DMC), a branch of theoretical chemistry born in the 1960s and 1970s. Then we explore the social context in which the emergence of DMC took place, ini-tiated mainly in East European countries. The availability of knowledge, espe-cially of mathematical knowledge, and the lack of research funds were the main conditions that helped get DMC started. We also explore the reception of DMC in the chemical and mathematical circles, being flat rejection in chemistry and slow acceptance in mathematics. Finally, we discuss some defi-nitions of the subject and propose a new one stating that mathematical chem-istry is the realization of mathematical thinking in chemistry, understood as functional thinking defined by Felix Klein in the Erlangen Program.
history of chemistry
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Copyright 2013 by HYLE: International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry and Guillermo Restrepo and José L. Villaveces
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