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Cambridge University Press Between Logic and Intuition
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Cambridge University Press Alfred Tarski Life and Logic
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Cambridge University Press Interpreting Newton Critical Essays
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Cambridge University Press Alfred Tarski Life and Logic
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Cambridge University Press The Logic of Concept Expansion
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Cambridge University Press Towards a Philosophy of Real Mathematics
Book SynopsisIn this ambitious study, David Corfield sets out a variety of approaches to new thinking about the philosophy of mathematics, and challenges both philosophers and mathematicians to develop the broadest and richest philosophical resources for work in their disciplines.Trade Review'Corfield's book as a whole is itself a fine specimen of a philosophical approach to mathematics that takes its questions and its resources from 'real' mathematics, showing convincingly the richness and fruitfulness of such an approach.' Philosophia Mathematica'I found this book interesting and it is certainly worth looking at if only to increase one's sense of the possibilities for the philosophy of mathematics.' Metascience'What is really special about the book under review is that it demonstrates a philosopher struggling to grapple with modern mathematics as it is actually carried out by practitioners. This is what the author means by 'real mathematics' as quoted in the book title.' Zentralblatt MATHTable of ContentsPreface; 1. Introduction: a role for history; Part I. Human and Artificial Mathematicians: 2. Communicating with automated theorem provers; 3. Automated conjecture formation; 4. The role of analogy in mathematics; Part II. Plausibility, Uncertainty and Probability: 5. Bayesianism in mathematics; 6. Uncertainty in mathematics and science; Part III. The Growth of Mathematics: 7. Lakatos's philosophy of mathematics; 8. Beyond the methodology of mathematical research programmes; 9. The importance of mathematical conceptualisation; Part IV. The Interpretation of Mathematics: 10. Higher dimensional algebra; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press Phenomenology Logic and the Philosophy of Mathematics
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Cambridge University Press Thinking as Communicating
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Cambridge University Press Mathematics and Explanation
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Cambridge University Press Iterative Conceptions of Set
Book SynopsisThis Element will examine possibilities for articulating this solution. The author hopes to make some of the underlying mathematical and philosophical ideas behind tricky bits of the philosophy of set theory clear for philosophers.
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Cambridge University Press Mathematical AntiRealism and Modal Nothingism
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Cambridge University Press The Materiality of Numbers
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Cambridge University Press Lakatos and the Historical Approach to Philosophy of Mathematics
Book SynopsisThis Element gives a detailed analysis of Imre Lakatos' ideas on the philosophy of mathematics. It also gives an account of how other researchers developed this approach after his death, what has been achieved so far, and what its prospects for the future might be.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Lakatos' contribution to the philosophy of mathematics; 3. Lakatos' legacy in the philosophy of mathematics I (1975–1995); 4. Lakatos' legacy in the philosophy of mathematics II (1996–2023); 5. Concluding remarks; References.
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Cambridge University Press Philosophical Uses of Categoricity Arguments
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Cambridge University Press Lakatos and the Historical Approach to Philosophy of Mathematics
Book SynopsisThis Element gives a detailed analysis of Imre Lakatos' ideas on the philosophy of mathematics. It also gives an account of how other researchers developed this approach after his death, what has been achieved so far, and what its prospects for the future might be.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Lakatos' contribution to the philosophy of mathematics; 3. Lakatos' legacy in the philosophy of mathematics I (1975–1995); 4. Lakatos' legacy in the philosophy of mathematics II (1996–2023); 5. Concluding remarks; References.
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Cambridge University Press Iterative Conceptions of Set
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Cambridge University Press Abstractionism
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Cambridge University Press The History of Mathematical Proof in Ancient Traditions
Book SynopsisThis radical volume explores the purposes and nature of proof in a range of historical settings, overturning the view that the first mathematical proofs were in Greek geometry and rested on the logical insights of Aristotle. It opens the way to providing the first comprehensive, textually based history of proof.Trade Review'This radical, profoundly scholarly book explores the purposes and nature of proof in a range of historical settings. It overturns the view that the first mathematical proofs were in Greek geometry and rested on the logical insights of Aristotle by showing how much of that view is an artefact of nineteenth-century historical scholarship. It documents the existence of proofs in ancient mathematical writings about numbers and shows that practitioners of mathematics in Mesopotamian, Chinese and Indian cultures knew how to prove the correctness of algorithms, which are much more prominent outside the limited range of surviving classical Greek texts that historians have taken as the paradigm of ancient mathematics. It opens the way to providing the first comprehensive, textually based history of proof.' Jeremy Gray, Open University'At long last, a substantial single volume on the history of ancient mathematics makes the cutting-edge research of scholars, some of whom normally publish in other languages, accessible to the English speaking reader … this volume is a milestone - the history of ancient mathematics has its very own French revolution, and it has finally crossed the Channel.' Serafina Cuomo, British Journal for the History of Science'… a collection of meticulous, expert studies of ancient mathematical texts. The individual chapters are essential reading for historians of geometry and arithmetic, and the volume, as a whole, will no doubt become canonical in the history of mathematics. Together, Karine Chemla and her ensemble of scholars successfully make the case for revising the nineteenth-century portrait of the history of mathematical proof that prevails even today. We must question the critical editions we employ, and we must expand the history of mathematical proof to include algorithmic texts in the Greek, Mesopotamian, Indian, Chinese, and Islamic traditions.' Early Science and Medicine'The purpose of the book … is to challenge the standard narrative and design a research program to replace it with a more adequate assessment of the achievements of non-Greek mathematicians in antiquity. The pivotal question is, in what sense and by what methods were mathematical procedures justified in showing that they always produce correct results when applied?' Jochen Brüning, Common KnowledgeTable of ContentsPrologue: historiography and history of mathematical proof: a research program Karine Chemla; Part I. Views on the Historiography of Mathematical Proof: 1. The Euclidean ideal of proof in The Elements and philological uncertainties of Heiberg's edition of the text Bernard Vitrac; 2. Diagrams and arguments in ancient Greek mathematics: lessons drawn from comparisons of the manuscript diagrams with those in modern critical editions Ken Saito and Nathan Sidoli; 3. The texture of Archimedes' arguments: through Heiberg's veil Reviel Netz; 4. John Philoponus and the conformity of mathematical proofs to Aristotelian demonstrations Orna Harari; 5. Contextualising Playfair and Colebrooke on proof and demonstration in the Indian mathematical tradition (1780–1820) Dhruv Raina; 6. Overlooking mathematical justifications in the Sanskrit tradition: the nuanced case of G. F. Thibaut Agathe Keller; 7. The logical Greek versus the imaginative Oriental: on the historiography of 'non-Western' mathematics during the period 1820–1920 François Charette; Part II. History of Mathematical Proof in Ancient Traditions: The Other Evidence: 8. The pluralism of Greek 'mathematics' Geoffrey Lloyd; 9. Generalizing about polygonal numbers in ancient Greek mathematics Ian Mueller; 10. Reasoning and symbolism in Diophantus: preliminary observations Reviel Netz; 11. Mathematical justification as non-conceptualized practice: the Babylonian example Jens Høyrup; 12. Interpretation of reverse algorithms in several Mesopotamian texts Christine Proust; 13. Reading proofs in Chinese commentaries: algebraic proofs in an algorithmic context Karine Chemla; 14. Dispelling mathematical doubts: assessing mathematical correctness of algorithms in Bhaskara's commentary on the mathematical chapter of the Aryabhatıya Agathe Keller; 15. Argumentation for state examinations: demonstration in traditional Chinese and Vietnamese mathematics Alexei Volkov; 16. A formal system of the Gougu method - a study on Li Rui's detailed outline of mathematical procedures for the right-angled triangle Tian Miao.
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Cambridge University Press Logicism and its Philosophical Legacy
Book SynopsisThis book will appeal to readers interested in analytic philosophy and its history. Avoiding mathematical detail and locating the relevant developments in their historical context, the book explains and extends recent advances in the philosophy of mathematics and our understanding of questions about the nature of scientific reality.Trade Review'As a philosophy major at the University of Western Ontario in 1995 I was fortunate enough to enroll in Demopoulos' history of analytic philosophy class … The essays in this volume preserve the intensity and commitment to rigorous argumentation that I first encountered in that class twenty years ago. … I look forward to Demopoulos' next contribution to these important debates.' Chris Pincock, The Journal of Bertrand Russell StudiesTable of ContentsPreface; Introduction; 1. Frege's analysis of arithmetical knowledge; 2. Carnap's thesis, on extending 'empiricism, semantics and ontology' to the realism-instrumentalism controversy; 3. Carnap's analysis of realism; 4. Bertrand Russell's The Analysis of Matter: its historical context and contemporary interest with Michael Friedman; 5. On the rational reconstruction of our theoretical knowledge; 6. Three views of theoretical knowledge; 7. Frege and the rigorization of analysis; 8. The philosophical basis of our knowledge of number; 9. The 1910 Principia's theory of functions and classes; 10. Ramsey's extensional propositional functions.
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Cambridge University Press The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Logic
Book SynopsisThis state-of-the-art overview of ancient logic for students and scholars covers the development of logic in Aristotle and the Stoics, the key concepts at the heart of the ancient logical systems and the legacy of ancient logic in the later philosophical tradition, from the Middle Ages to today.Table of ContentsPart I. The Development of Logic in Antiquity: 1. The prehistory of logic Nicholas Denyer; 2. Aristotle and Theophrastus Paolo Fait; 3. Megarians and Stoics Karlheinz Hülser; 4. Late antiquity Benjamin Morison; Part II. Key Themes: 5. Truth as a logical property and the laws of being true Walter Cavini; 6. Definition Michael Ferejohn; 7. Terms and propositions Paolo Crivelli; 8. Validity and syllogism Luca Castagnoli and Paolo fait; 9. Demonstration Alexander Bown; 10. Modalities and modal logic Marko Malink; 11. Fallacies and paradoxes Luca Castagnoli; 12. Logic in ancient rhetoric Christof Rapp; 13. Ancient logic and ancient mathematics Reviel Netz; Part III. The Legacy of Ancient Logic: 14. Ancient logic in the middle ages John Marenbon; 15. Ancient logic from the Renaissance to the birth of mathematical logic Mirella Capozzi and Leila Haaparanta; 16. Ancient logic today John Woods.
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Cambridge University Press Kants Mathematical World
Book SynopsisKant's Mathematical World aims to transform our understanding of Kant's philosophy of mathematics and his account of the mathematical character of the world. Daniel Sutherland reconstructs Kant's project of explaining both mathematical cognition and our cognition of the world in terms of our most basic cognitive capacities.Trade Review'Daniel Sutherland's Kant's Mathematical World is a remarkable scholarly achievement. The meticulously detailed analysis of Kant's theory of magnitude opens up into a comprehensive account of the mathematical character of experience, shedding new light on virtually every aspect of the first Critique and engaging with many of the liveliest current debates surrounding it. It is essential reading for scholars of Kant's theoretical philosophy.' Emily Carson, McGill University'simply outstanding … Highly recommended.' D. C. Kolb, Choice ConnectTable of ContentsPreface and acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: mathematics and the world of experience; Part I. Mathematics, Magnitudes and the Conditions of Experience: 2. Space, time and mathematics in the Critique of Pure Reason; 3. Magnitudes, mathematics, and experience in the Axioms of Intuition; 4. Extensive and intensive magnitudes and continuity; 5. Conceptual and intuitive representation: singularity, continuity, and concreteness; Interlude: the Greek mathematical tradition as background to Kant: 6. Euclid, the Euclidean mathematical tradition, and the theory of magnitudes; Part II. Kant's Theory of Magnitudes and the Role of Intuition: 7. Kant's reworking of the theory of magnitudes; 8. Kant's reformation of the metaphysics of quantity; 9. From mereology to mathematics; 10. Concluding remarks; Bibliography; Index.
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Cambridge University Press A Concise History of Mathematics for Philosophers
Presents an outline of mathematics and its history, with particular emphasis on events that shook up its philosophy. Ranges from ancient Greece to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century discoveries on the nature of infinity and proof. Recurring themes are intuition and logic, meaning and existence, and the discrete and the continuous.
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Cambridge University Press Paraconsistency in Mathematics
Book SynopsisParaconsistent logic makes it possible to study inconsistent theories in a coherent way. From its modern start in the mid-20th century, paraconsistency was intended for use in mathematics, providing a rigorous framework for describing abstract objects and structures where some contradictions are allowed, without collapse into incoherence. Over the past decades, this initiative has evolved into an area of non-classical mathematics known as inconsistent or paraconsistent mathematics. This Element provides a selective introductory survey of this research program, distinguishing between `moderate'' and `radical'' approaches. The emphasis is on philosophical issues and future challenges.Table of Contents1. Invitation to Paraconsistency in Mathematics: Why and How?; 2. Set Theory; 3. Arithmetic; 4. Calculus, Topology, and Geometry; 5. Whither Paraconsistency in Mathematics?
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Cambridge University Press Elliptic and Hyperelliptic Integrals and Allied Theory
Originally published in 1938, this book focuses on the area of elliptic and hyperelliptic integrals and allied theory. The text was a posthumous publication by William Westropp Roberts (18501935), who held the position of Vice-Provost at Trinity College, Dublin from 1927 until shortly before his death.
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The University of Chicago Press Berkeleys Philosophy of Mathematics Science its
Book SynopsisIn this first modern, critical assessment of the place of mathematics in Berkeley's philosophy and Berkeley's place in the history of mathematics, Douglas M. Jesseph provides a bold reinterpretation of Berkeley's work. Jesseph challenges the prevailing view that Berkeley's mathematical writings are peripheral to his philosophy and argues that mathematics is in fact central to his thought, developing out of his critique of abstraction. Jesseph's argument situates Berkeley's ideas within the larger historical and intellectual context of the Scientific Revolution. Jesseph begins with Berkeley's radical opposition to the received view of mathematics in the philosophy of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries, when mathematics was considered a science of abstractions. Since this view seriously conflicted with Berkeley's critique of abstract ideas, Jesseph contends that he was forced to come up with a nonabstract philosophy of mathematics. Jesseph examines Berkeley's unique trea
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The University of Chicago Press Science and an African Logic
Book SynopsisDoes two and two equal four? Ask someone and they should answer yes. An equation such as this seems the very definition of certainty, but is it? Helen Verran describes how she went from the conclusion that logic and maths are culturally relative, to a new understanding of all generalizing logic.
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Hachette Books More Numbers Every Day
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Random House USA Inc The Fractalist
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Basic Books Significant Figures
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DK El Libro de Las Matemticas Big Ideas
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux A Divine Language
Book SynopsisA New York Times Book Review Editors'' ChoiceWilkinson has accomplished something more moving and original, braiding his stumbling attempts to get better at math with his deepening awareness that there's an entire universe of understanding that will, in some fundamental sense, forever lie outside his reach. Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times There is almost no writer I admire as much as I do Alec Wilkinson. His work has enduring brilliance and humanity. Susan Orlean, author of The Library Book A spirited, metaphysical exploration into math''s deepest mysteries and conundrums at the crux of middle age.Decades after struggling to understand math as a boy, Alec Wilkinson decides to embark on a journey to learn it as a middle-aged man. What begins as a personal challengeand it''s challengingsoon transforms into something greater than a belabored effort to learn math. Despite his incompetence, Wilkinson enc
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Picador USA A Divine Language
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Johns Hopkins University Press Algebra in Context
Book SynopsisProvides a framework for understanding algebra and related fields. In this book, students will discover why mathematics is such a crucial part not only of civilization but also of everyday life.Trade ReviewThis book approaches the teaching of algebra to first year undergraduate students with a unique use of the art's history and development. Students that have already encountered many of these topics in a traditional format in high school or college may find this engaging framework a boon to understanding. Mathematical Association of America The book is well organized and thorough. The authors take a conglomeration of discoveries and inventions over three millennia and present them in an ordered, coherent manner. Mathematic TeacherTable of ContentsPrefaceIntroductionPart I1. Number Bases1.1. Base 61.2. Base 42. Babylonian Number System2.1. Cuneiform2.2. Mathematical Texts2.3. Number System3. Egyptian and Roman Number Systems3.1. Egyptian3.1.1. History3.1.2. Writing and Mathematics3.1.3. Number System3.2. Roman3.2.1. History3.2.2. Number System4. Chinese Number System4.1. History and Mathematics4.2. Rod Numerals5. Mayan Number System5.1. Calendar5.2. Codices5.3. Number System5.4. Native North Americans6. Indo-Arabic Number System6.1. India6.1.1. History6.1.2. Mathematics6.2. The Middle East6.2.1. History6.2.2. Mathematics6.3. Number System6.3.1. Whole Numbers6.3.2. Fractions7. ExercisesPart II8. Addition and Subtraction9. Multiplication9.1. Roman Abacus9.2. Grating or Lattice Method9.3. Ibn Labban and Chinese Counting Board9.4. Egyptian Doubling Method10. Division10.1. Egyptian10.2. Leonardo of Pisa10.3. Galley or Scratch Method11. Casting Out Nines12. Finding Square Roots12.1. Heron of Alexandria12.2. Theon of Alexandria12.3. Bakhshali Manuscript12.4. Nicolas Chuquet13. ExercisesPart III14. Sets14.1. Set Relations14.2. Finding 2n14.3. One-to-One Correspondence and Cardinality15. Rational, Irrational, and Real Numbers15.1. Commensurable and Incommensurable Magnitudes15.2. Rational Numbers15.3. Irrational Numbers15.4. I Is Uncountably Infinite15.5. card(Q), card(I), and card(R)15.6. Transfinite Numbers16. Logic17. The Higher Arithmetic17.1. Early Greek Elementary Number Theory17.1.1. Pythagoras17.1.2. Euclid17.1.3. Nicomachus and Diophantus17.2. Even and Odd Numbers17.3. Figurate Numbers17.3.1. Triangular Numbers17.3.2. Square Numbers17.3.3. Rectangular Numbers17.3.4. Other Figurate Numbers17.4. Pythagorean Triples17.5. Divisors, Common Factors, and Common Multiples17.5.1. Factors and Multiples17.5.2. Euclid's Algorithm17.5.3. Multiples17.6. Prime Numbers17.6.1. The Sieve of Eratosthenes17.6.2. The Fundamental Theorem of Arithmetic17.6.3. Perfect Numbers17.6.4. Friendly Numbers18. ExercisesPart IV19. Linear Problems19.1. Review of Linear Equations19.2. False Position19.3. Double False Position20. Quadratic Problems20.1. Solving Quadratic Equations by Completing the Square20.1.1. Babylonian201.2. Arabic201.3. Indian20.1.4. The Quadratic Formula20.2. Polynomial Equations in One Variable20.2.1. Powers20.2.2. nth Roots20.3. Continued Fractions20.3.1. Finite Simple Continued Fractions20.3.2. Infinite Simple Continued Fractions20.3.3. The Number21. Cubic Equations and Complex Numbers21.1. Complex Numbers21.2. Solving Cubic Equations and the Cubic Formula22. Polynomial EquationsRelation between Roots and CoefficientsViète and Harriot22.3. Zeros of a Polynomial22.3.1. Factoring22.3.2. Descartes's Rule of Signs22.4. The Fundamental Theorem of Algebra23. Rule of Three23.1. China23.2. India23.3. Medieval Europe23.4. The Rule of Three in False Position23.5. Direct Variation, Inverse Variation, and Modeling24. Logarithms24.1. Logarithms Today24.2. Properties of Logarithms24.3. Bases of a Logarithm24.3.1. Using a Calculator24.3.2. Comparing Logarithms24.4. Logarithm to the Base e and Applications24.4.1. Compound Interest24.4.2. Amortization24.4.3. Exponential Growth and Decay24.5. Logarithm to the Base 10 and Application to Earthquakes25. ExercisesBibliographyIndex
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Basic Books Is Math Real?: How Simple Questions Lead Us to
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Centre for the Study of Language & Information The Philosophical Status of Diagrams
Book SynopsisThe use of diagrams in logic and geometry has encountered resistence throughout the years. For a proof to be valid in geometry it must not rely on the graphical properties of a diagram. In logic the teaching of proofs depends on the sentenial representations, ideas formed as natural language sentences such as "if A is true and B is true...". No serious formal proof system is based on diagrams. This text explores the reasons why structured graphics have been ignored in modern formal theories of axiomatic systems. The effects of historical forces on the evolution of diagrammatically-based systems of inference in logic and geometry are explored, from antiquity to the early 20th-century work of David Hilbert. From this exploration emerges an understanding that the present negative attitudes towards the use of diagrams in logic and geometry owe more to implicit appeals to their history and philosophical background than to any technical incompatibility with modern theories of logical systems.
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St Augustine's Press Insights and Manipulations – What Classical
Book SynopsisThe past becomes a source of wisdom when the scientific quest for uncovering the roots of things is combined with the humanistic endeavor to make the dead letter come alive in a thoughtful mind. Vague attempts at being “interdisciplinary,” by contrast, merely provide excuses to avoid examining the words set down by the scientific thinkers themselves. If we love wisdom in its wholeness, we must explore the sources of the things that we now take for granted: we must think through the records of the thinking that has demarcated the various fields of study and envisioned what’s to be investigated within them and how it’s to be done. But where shall we start looking for points of view to help us consider what learning is, and what learning has to do with how we live within our world? We couldn’t do better than to climb the two peaks that constitute the subject of this book. these are the classical geometry in which Apollonius presented the conic sections, and that modern transformation over which Descartes presided at its inception. In this effort, a useful link between our two primary texts is provided by examining some work done by Diophantus, by Pappus, and by Viète. While the study of these writings is a formidable enterprise indeed, the two volumes of Insights and Manipulations, offering clear guidance and abundant help, greatly alleviate the requisite labor.
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Reaktion Books Blaise Pascal: Miracles and Reason
Book SynopsisBlaise Pascal had an extraordinary life and career. Renowned as a child prodigy, he engaged with the intellectual ferment surrounding the mathematician Father Mersenne before turning to his scientific experiments, his work on mathematics and construction of mechanical calculating machines, his correspondence with Pierre de Fermat and Rene Descartes, and his 'Memorial', a scrap of paper he always wore close to his heart on which he described an overwhelming religious experience.This book considers Pascal's modes of writing - whether he is arguing with the strict puritanical modes of Church politics, in the guise of a naive 'provincial' trying to understand the Jesuitical approach (Les Provinciales), or meditating on the ways to present his own thoughts on religion (Apologia) to the world outside Port-Royal, the convent his sister Jacqueline had persuaded him to enter.Pascal's so-called 'worldly period', in which his relation to his libertine friends motivated his celebrated 'wager' about belief, is discussed alongside his Jansenist writings, his meditations on thinking about thinking, and finally his invention of the first means of public transport in Paris, shortly before his untimely death at 39 following a lifetime of illness. The book, which includes a preface by Tom Conley, covers many aspects of Pascal's life and work that are seldom found side by side: his religious motivations and his belief in miracles, his scientific passions, his practical savvy and the aphorisms of the Pensees, so influential worldwide. This is a valuable account of a fascinating figure of the early modern period, and will interest the wide audience for the history of mathematics, philosophy, religion and science.Trade Review"Caws, one of the world authorities on the international avant-garde, both in poetry and in the visual arts, here turns her attention to the life and work of a seemingly very different writer, the great seventeenth-century thinker Blaise Pascal. As she shows brilliantly, Pascal's Pens es and other writings, which she has in fact been reading and ruminating on all her life, pave the way for the avant-garde of our own century, and they anticipate in uncanny ways Wittgenstein's similarly informal ways of doing philosophy. It is the quality of Pascal's writing--his abrupt, abbreviated, aphoristic, gnomic utterance--so mysterious and yet so authoritative--that fascinates Caws, and her book is eloquent testimony to Pascal's continuing relevance today. We need Pascal--the precise logician as well as the philosopher and religious thinker--more than ever. Mary Ann Caws here gives us another beautiful book."--Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University "Mary Ann Caw's delightful commentary on the life and influence of Pascal provides a compelling, short account of the brilliant and provocative inventor, mathematician, theologian, and essayist. Caws makes each of the main events of Pascal's life and work into parables filled with awe for his protean intellect, literary style, and unshakable faith tempered by palpable empathy for his oddness, physical frailty, and piety." --Charles Bernstein, University of Pennsylvania
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St Augustine's Press Science and Method
Book SynopsisPreface by Bertrand Russell; One of the Greatest mathematician of his age, Poincare here deals with a variety of issues of methodology: the selection of facts for study, the calculation of errors, and the use of statistical methods to compensate for errors, and the use of statistical methods to compensate for errors. It also contains an attack on logicism in the foundations of mathematics, and an early account of the significance of methodology of the "new mechanics" of radioactive decay.
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Tarquin Publications Peculiar Deaths of Famous Mathematicians
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Wooden Books The Golden Section: Nature's Greatest Secret
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Klincksieck L'Hermeneutique Formelle: L'Infini, Le Continu,
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Classiques Garnier La Geometrie En Milieu Professionnel: Dessiner La
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Brepols N.V. Editing and Analysing Numerical Tables: Towards a
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Theorie Des Fonctions Algebriques d'Une Variable
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Leibniz Et La Methode de la Science
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Modes de l'Analyse Et Formes de la Geometrie
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Springer Nature Switzerland AG Modeling, Dynamics, Optimization and Bioeconomics IV: DGS VI JOLATE, Madrid, Spain, May 2018, and ICABR, Berkeley, USA, May–June 2017—Selected Contributions
Book SynopsisThis book, following the three published volumes of the book, provides the main purpose to collect research papers and review papers to provide an overview of the main issues, results, and open questions in the cutting-edge research on the fields of modeling, optimization, and dynamics and their applications to biology, economy, energy, industry, physics, psychology and finance. Assuming the scientific relevance of the presenting innovative applications as well as merging issues in these areas, the purpose of this book is to collect papers of the world experts in mathematics, economics, and other applied sciences that is seminal to the future research developments. The majority of the papers presented in this book is authored by the participants in The Joint Meeting 6th International Conference on Dynamics, Games, and Science – DGSVI – JOLATE and in the 21st ICABR Conference. The scientific scope of the conferences is focused on the fields of modeling, optimization, and dynamics and their applications to biology, economy, energy, industry, physics, psychology, and finance. Assuming the scientific relevance of the presenting innovative applications as well as merging issues in these areas, the purpose of the conference is to bring together some of the world experts in mathematics, economics, and other applied sciences that reinforce ongoing projects and establish future works and collaborations.Table of ContentsA. Afsar, F. Martins, Bruno M. P. M. Oliveira, and A. A. Pinto, Immune response model fitting to CD4+ T cell data in lymphocytic choriomeningitis virus LCMV infection.- U. Agyüz, V. Purutçuoglu, E. Purutçuoglu and Y. Ürün, Construction of a New Model to Investigate Breast Cancer Data.- I. Baltas, M. Szczepanski, L. Dopierala, K. Kolodziejczyk, G.-W. Weber and A. N. Yannacopoulos, Optimal Pension Fund Management Under Risk and Uncertainty: The Case Study of Poland.- M. Bujidos-Casado, J. Navío-Marco and B. Rodrigo-Moya, Collaborative Innovation of Spanish SMEs in the European context: A compared study.- G. G. de Castro, A. O. Lopes and G. Mantovani, Haar systems, KMS states on von Neumann algebras and C*-algebras on dynamically defined groupoids and Noncommutative Integration.- C. Çıtak, T. Aksu, Ö. Harputlu and Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, Mixed Compression Air-Intake Design for High-Speed Transportation.- D. Czerkawski, J. Małecka, G. Wilhelm Weber and B. Kjamili, Social Entrepreneurship Business Models for Handicapped People - Polish & Turkish case study of sharing public goods by doing business.- H. H. Ferreira, A. O. Lopes and E. R. Oliveira, An iterative process for approximating subactions.- A. D. Garcia and M. A. Szybisz, "Beat the gun": The phenomenon of liquidity.- E. Gómez-Escalonilla and Laura Parte, Board Knowledge and Bank Risk-Taking. An International Analysis.- F. Jiménez-Delgado, M. Dolores Reina-Paz, Israel J ThuissardVasallo and David Sanz-Rosa, The shopping experience in virtual sales: A study of the influence of website atmosphere on purchase intention.- Kyung B. Kim and José M. Labeaga, European Mobile Phone Industry: Demand Estimation Using Discrete Random Coefficients Models.- A. O. Lopes and M. Sebastiani, On Bertelson-Gromov Dynamical Morse Entropy, Rogério Martins, Synchronisation of weakly coupled oscillators.- Z. Kamisli Ozturk, Y. Cetin, Y. Isik and Z. I. Erzurum Cicek, Demand Forecasting with Clustering and Artificial Neural Networks Methods: an Application for Stock Keeping Units.- O. Palanci, S.Z. Alparslan Gok and Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, On the Grey Obligation Rules.- Juan Diego Paredes-Gázquez, Eva Pardo and José Miguel Rodríguez-Fernández, Robustness checks in composite indicators: A responsible approach.- Elena V. Ravve, Zeev Volkovich, Gerhard-Wilhelm Weber, A Logic-Based Approach to Incremental Reasoning on Multi-Agent Systems.
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Peeters Publishers Mathématiques et Métaphysique dans la pensée de
Book SynopsisLes mathématiques constituent pour Nicolas de Cues (1401-1464) une discipline intellectuelle clé. Elles sont d’une part la manifestation la plus nette et la plus parfaite de la fécondité de la raison qui s’exprime en elles comme dans sa forme symbolique essentielle, et d’autre part elles constituent la porte d’entrée vers la métaphysique. Celle devrait en toute logique s’appeler d’ailleurs métamathématique plutôt que métaphysique, terme qui ressortit davantage à la tradition aristotélicienne à laquelle Nicolas de Cues préférait manifestement une filiation pythagoricienne et platonicienne. Les études rassemblées dans ce volume abordent différentes thématiques liées à ces deux axes : conception de l’espace géométrique, méthodes mathématiques concrètes pour aborder le problème de la quadrature du cercle, statut du point, méthode des proportions, approche mathématique de l’Un, mathématiques et doctrine trinitaire, et bien d’autres thématiques sont ici abordées et traitées par une équipe de spécialistes.
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