Practical Foundations of Mathematics explains the basis of mathematical reasoning both in pure mathematics itself (algebra and topology in particular) and in computer science. In addition to the formal logic, this volume examines the relationship between computer languages and "plain English" mathematical proofs. The book introduces the reader to discrete mathematics, reasoning, and categorical logic. It offers a new approach to term algebras, induction and recursion and proves in detail the equivalence of types and categories. Each idea is illustrated by wide-ranging examples, and followed...
Practical Foundations of Mathematics explains the basis of mathematical reasoning both in pure mathematics itself (algebra and topology in particular)...
This book provides unparalleled coverage of each of the principal organs of the United Nations. This collection offers a survey of the life of each organ since its inception in 1945, the extent to which is has fulfilled its founding mission, and proposals for reform.As well as providing comprehensive coverage of the present role of this highly influential organization, the book addresses larger questions about the role of the U.N. and the fitness for purpose of its principal organs as a means to global governance.
This book provides unparalleled coverage of each of the principal organs of the United Nations. This collection offers a survey of the life of each...
Through the prism of the three major conflicts during Saddam Hussein s reign the Iran Iraq War, the Gulf War, and the War on Iraq Raphael Israeli exposes the tyranny, deception, and terror synonymous with the Ba ath regime. Focusing on Iraq s demographic populations, including the Shi ites in the south, the Kurdish north, and the Sunni ruling minority, the author documents the difficulties the United States faces internally as rulers of an occupied land, and internationally as a perceived unilateralist aggressor. This work contains revealing insights into Saddam s nuclear, chemical, and...
Through the prism of the three major conflicts during Saddam Hussein s reign the Iran Iraq War, the Gulf War, and the War on Iraq Raphael Israeli expo...
This book provides an innovative examination of the European Union as it departs from its path of integration. Indeed, so far has it departed that it could be described as having entered a new reality. The original reality was that captured in the evocative phrase in its founding agreement, the Treaty of Rome, that it should be an ever-closer union of peoples. Largely that was the path followed until the 1990s, but by the early twenty-first century there have been signs that it is turning into an ordinary international organization in which there is little overriding sense of...
This book provides an innovative examination of the European Union as it departs from its path of integration. Indeed, so far has it departed that ...
