期刊名称:Hyle : International Journal for Philosophy of Chemistry
印刷版ISSN:1433-5158
出版年度:2013
卷号:19
期号:1
页码:87-105
出版社:HYLE Publications, Karlsruhe and University of Karlsruhe
摘要:It is pointed out that visualization, such as the structural formula of molecules, is the most important factor in 'chemical thinking'. How mathe-matical chemistry has contributed to the development of mathematics is de-scribed with particular reference to the topological index or Z-index, proposed by the present author, and fullerene chemistry developed by mathematical chemists in various countries. Mathematical chemistry will be able to contrib-ute to the development of mathematics by interplaying with mathematicians in the same way as it has been developing up to the present stage