The authors have been beguiled and entranced by mathematics all of their lives, and both believe it is the highest expression of pure thought and an essential component-one might say the quintessence-of nature. How else can one ex plain the remarkable effectiveness of mathematics in describing and predicting the physical world? The projection of the mathematical method onto the subspace of human endeav 1 ors has long been a source of societal progress and commercial technology. The invention of the electronic digital computer (not the mechanical digital computer of Babbage) has made the role...
The authors have been beguiled and entranced by mathematics all of their lives, and both believe it is the highest expression of pure thought and an e...
The Illusion of Reality was conceived during my tenure as director of the newly established Division of Information Science and Technology at the National Science Foundation in 1979-1981 as a partial response to the need for a textbook for students, both in and out of government, that would pro- vide a comprehensive view of information science as a fundamental constitu- ent of other more established disciplines with a unity and coherence distinct from computer science, cognitive science, and library science although it is related to all of them. Driven by the advances of information...
The Illusion of Reality was conceived during my tenure as director of the newly established Division of Information Science and Technology at the Nati...
0. 1. Junge Leute, die sich heutzutage zu einem Studium entschlie en, sollten in ihren Studienjahren mindestens zwei Dinge erreichen. Sie sollten sich erstens eine gewisse Kompetenz in einem Spezialgebiet aneignen, so d sie spater eine entsprechende Stellung in der Gesellschaft fmden konnen. Zweitens soIl ten sie sich der anderen Krafte und Stromungen in der Gesellschaft bewu t werden, die den Lauf und die Qualitiit ihres Lebens beeinflussen, und sie verstehen lemen. Urn dieses zweite Ziel zu erreichen, sind in den letzten Jahren an den amerikanischen Colleges Vorlesungen eingerichtet worden,...
0. 1. Junge Leute, die sich heutzutage zu einem Studium entschlie en, sollten in ihren Studienjahren mindestens zwei Dinge erreichen. Sie sollten sich...
The authors have been beguiled and entranced by mathematics all of their lives, and both believe it is the highest expression of pure thought and an essential component-one might say the quintessence-of nature. How else can one ex plain the remarkable effectiveness of mathematics in describing and predicting the physical world? The projection of the mathematical method onto the subspace of human endeav 1 ors has long been a source of societal progress and commercial technology. The invention of the electronic digital computer (not the mechanical digital computer of Babbage) has made the role...
The authors have been beguiled and entranced by mathematics all of their lives, and both believe it is the highest expression of pure thought and an e...
