The Paradox of God and the Science of Omniscience
ISBN: 9781403964571 / Angielski / Miękka / 262 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In his most ambitious book yet, Clifford Pickover bridges the gulf between logic, spirit, science, and religion. While exploring the concept of omniscience, Pickover explains the kinds of relationships limited beings can have with an all-knowing God. Pickover's thought exercises, controversial experiments, and practical analogies help us transcend our ordinary lives while challenging us to better understand our place in the cosmos and our dreams of a supernatural God. Through an inventive blend of science, history, philosophy, science fiction, and mind-stretching brainteasers, Pickover... In his most ambitious book yet, Clifford Pickover bridges the gulf between logic, spirit, science, and religion. While exploring the concept of omn... |
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The Big Typescript: Ts 213
ISBN: 9781405106993 / Angielski / Twarda / 1056 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Long awaited by the scholarly community, Wittgenstein's so-called Big Typescript (von Wright Catalog # TS 213) is presented here in an en face English-German scholar's edition.
Long awaited by the scholarly community, Wittgenstein's so-called Big Typescript (von Wright Catalog # TS 213) is presented here in an en fa... |
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871,07 zł |
Euclid and His Modern Rivals
ISBN: 9781406704020 / Angielski / Miękka / 332 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This classic book is Charles Lutwidge Dodgson s 1879 work, Euclid and his Modern Rivals . It is a mathematical volume that compares thirteen contemporary geometry textbooks, describing each one in relation to its superiority or inferiority to Euclid's Elements . This volume will appeal to those with a keen interest in mathematical education, and would make for a wonderful addition to collections of allied literature. Contents include: Preliminaries to Examination of Modern Rivals, A Priori reasons for retaining Euclid s Manual, Manuals which reject Euclid s Treatment of Parallels, Treatment...
This classic book is Charles Lutwidge Dodgson s 1879 work, Euclid and his Modern Rivals . It is a mathematical volume that compares thirteen contempor...
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181,83 zł |
MacLaurin's Physical Dissertations
ISBN: 9781846285936 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents important works by the Scottish mathematician Colin MacLaurin (1698-1746), translated in English for the first time. It includes three of the mathematician s less known and often hard to obtain works. A general introduction puts the works in context and gives an outline of MacLaurin's career. Each translation is also accompanied by an introduction and analyzed both in modern terms and from a historical point of view. "This book presents important works by the Scottish mathematician Colin MacLaurin (1698-1746), translated in English for the first time. It includes... |
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194,08 zł |
Number Story: From Counting to Cryptography
ISBN: 9781848000001 / Angielski / Twarda / 323 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Peter Higgins distills centuries of work into one delightful narrative that celebrates the mystery of numbers and explains how different kinds of numbers arose and why they are useful. Full of historical snippets and interesting examples, the book ranges from simple number puzzles and magic tricks, to showing how ideas about numbers relate to real-world problems. This fascinating book will inspire and entertain readers across a range of abilities. Easy material is blended with more challenging ideas. As our understanding of numbers continues to evolve, this book invites us to rediscover... Peter Higgins distills centuries of work into one delightful narrative that celebrates the mystery of numbers and explains how different kinds of n... |
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116,43 zł |
Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science
ISBN: 9781904987215 / Angielski / Miękka / 708 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book collects most of the invited papers presented at the 12th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science in Oviedo, August 2003. It contains state of the art accounts of ongoing work by a selection of the most renowned researchers in the field. The papers in the Logic section deal with topics in mathematical logic, as well as philosophical logic, and the area of logic and computation. The section on General Methodology contains articles on models, theories, probability, induction, causation, and other topics. A number of papers discuss Philosophical Issues of...
This book collects most of the invited papers presented at the 12th International Congress of Logic, Methodology and Philosophy of Science in Oviedo, ...
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177,09 zł |
Selecta Mathematica II
ISBN: 9783211838341 / Angielski / Twarda / 678 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Karl Menger, one of the founders of dimension theory, belongs to the most original mathematicians and thinkers of the twentieth century. He was a member of the Vienna Circle and the founder of its mathematical equivalent, the Viennese Mathematical Colloquium. Both during his early years in Vienna and after his emigration to the United States, Karl Menger made significant contributions to a wide variety of mathematical fields, and greatly influenced some of his colleagues. The "Selecta Mathematica" contain Menger's major mathematical papers, based on a personal selection by himself out of his...
Karl Menger, one of the founders of dimension theory, belongs to the most original mathematicians and thinkers of the twentieth century. He was a memb...
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194,08 zł |
Mathematics and Culture I
ISBN: 9783540017707 / Angielski / Twarda / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A fascinating and insightful collection of papers on the strong links between mathematics and culture. The contributions range from cinema and theatre directors to musicians, architects, historians, physicians, graphic designers and writers. The text highlights the cultural and formative character of mathematics, its educational value, and imaginative dimension. These articles are highly interesting, sometimes amusing, and make excellent starting points for researching the strong connection between scientific and literary culture. A fascinating and insightful collection of papers on the strong links between mathematics and culture. The contributions range from cinema and thea... |
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194,08 zł |
Gauss: A Biographical Study
ISBN: 9783540106623 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Procreare iucundum, sed parturire molestum. (Gauss, sec. Eisenstein) The plan of this book was first conceived eight years ago. The manuscript developed slowly through several versions until it attained its present form in 1979. It would be inappropriate to list the names of all the friends and advisors with whom I discussed my various drafts but I should like to mention the name of Mr. Gary Cornell who, besides discussing with me numerous details of the manuscript, revised it stylistically. There is much interest among mathematicians to know more about Gauss's life, and the generous help I...
Procreare iucundum, sed parturire molestum. (Gauss, sec. Eisenstein) The plan of this book was first conceived eight years ago. The manuscript develop...
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The Shaping of Arithmetic after C.F. Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae
ISBN: 9783540204411 / Angielski / Twarda / 578 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Since its publication, C.F. Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1801) has acquired an almost mythical reputation, standing as an ideal of exposition in notation, problems and methods; as a model of organisation and theory building; and as a source of mathematical inspiration. Eighteen authors - mathematicians, historians, philosophers - have collaborated in this volume to assess the impact of the Disquisitiones, in the two centuries since its publication. Since its publication, C.F. Gauss's Disquisitiones Arithmeticae (1801) has acquired an almost mythical reputation, standing as an ideal of expositi... |
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Le Probleme Mathematique de l'Espace: Une Quete de l'Intelligible
ISBN: 9783540589228 / Francuski / Twarda / 526 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Cet ouvrage traite de la transformation fondamentale survenue dans la pensee mathematique a la suite de la decouverte de la geometrie non euclidienne. Cette transformation a eu comme consequence celle d'admettre que, non seulement pouvaient exister plusieurs geometries, mais encore plusieurs espaces mathematiques et plusieurs espaces physiques differents. La recherche s'attache en grande partie a analyser les etapes qui ont conduit a cette nouvelle conception et aux idees mathematiques qui en sont le fondement. Le livre cherche egalement a en elucider la signification epistemologique et a...
Cet ouvrage traite de la transformation fondamentale survenue dans la pensee mathematique a la suite de la decouverte de la geometrie non euclidienne....
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194,08 zł |
Multiplicative Inequalities of Carlson Type and Interpolation
ISBN: 9789812567086 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Collecting all the results on the particular types of inequalities, the coverage of this book is unique among textbooks in the literature. The book focuses on the historical development of the Carlson inequalities and their many generalizations and variations. As well as almost all known results concerning these inequalities and all known proof techniques, a number of open questions suitable for further research are considered. Two chapters are devoted to clarifying the close connection between interpolation theory and this type of inequality. Other applications are also included, in addition...
Collecting all the results on the particular types of inequalities, the coverage of this book is unique among textbooks in the literature. The book fo...
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494,64 zł |
Ernst Specker Selecta
ISBN: 9783764324087 / Angielski / Twarda / 397 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Ernst Specker has made decisive contributions towards shaping direc tions in topology, algebra, mathematical logic, combinatorics and algorith mic over the last 40 years. We have derived great pleasure from marking his seventieth birthday by editing the majority of his scientific publications, and thus making his work available in a unified form to the mathematical community. In order to convey an idea of the richness of his personality, we have also included one of his sermons. Of course, the publication of these Selecta can pay tribute only to the writings of Ernst Specker. It cannot...
Ernst Specker has made decisive contributions towards shaping direc tions in topology, algebra, mathematical logic, combinatorics and algorith mic ove...
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388,20 zł |
Mathematical Knowledge
ISBN: 9780199228249 / Angielski / Twarda / 230 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. What is the nature of mathematical knowledge? Is it anything like scientific knowledge or is it sui generis? How do we acquire it? Should we believe what mathematicians themselves tell us about it? Are mathematical concepts innate or acquired? Eight new essays offer answers to these and many other questions. Written by some of the world's leading philosophers of mathematics, psychologists, and mathematicians, Mathematical Knowledge gives a lively sense of the current state of debate in this fascinating field.
What is the nature of mathematical knowledge? Is it anything like scientific knowledge or is it sui generis? How do we acquire it? Should we believe w...
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446,22 zł |
Philosophical Lectures on Probability
ISBN: 9781402082016 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Bruno de Finetti (1906 1985) is the founder of the subjective interpretation of probability, together with the British philosopher Frank Plumpton Ramsey. His related notion of exchangeability revolutionized the statistical methodology. This book (based on a course held in 1979) explains in a language accessible also to non-mathematicians the fundamental tenets and implications of subjectivism, according to which the probability of any well specified fact F refers to the degree of belief actually held by someone, on the ground of her whole knowledge, on the truth of the assertion that F... Bruno de Finetti (1906 1985) is the founder of the subjective interpretation of probability, together with the British philosopher Frank Plumpton R... |
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776,43 zł |
Professor Stewart's Cabinet of Mathematical Curiosities
ISBN: 9780465013029 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Knowing that the most exciting math is not taught in school, Professor Ian Stewart has spent years filling his cabinet with intriguing mathematical games, puzzles, stories, and factoids intended for the adventurous mind. This book reveals the most exhilarating oddities from Professor Stewart's legendary cabinet.
Inside, you will find hidden gems of logic, geometry, and probability--like how to extract a cherry from a cocktail glass (harder than you think), a pop-up dodecahedron, and the real reason why you can't divide anything by zero. Scattered among these are keys to Fermat's last... Knowing that the most exciting math is not taught in school, Professor Ian Stewart has spent years filling his cabinet with intriguing mathemat...
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137,87 zł |
Cryptological Mathematics
ISBN: 9780883857199 / Angielski / Miękka / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This is an introduction to the mathematics involved in the intriguing field of cryptology, the science of writing and reading secret messages which are designed to be read only by their intended recipients. It is written at an elementary level, suitable for beginning undergraduates, with careful explanations of all the concepts used. The basic branches of mathematics required, including number theory, abstract algebra and probability, are used to show how to encipher and decipher messages, and why this works, giving a practical as well as theoretical basis to the subject. Challenging computer...
This is an introduction to the mathematics involved in the intriguing field of cryptology, the science of writing and reading secret messages which ar...
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276,28 zł |
Remarks on the Foundation of Mathematics
ISBN: 9780631125051 / Angielski / Miękka / 448 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This substantially revised edition of Wittgenstein's Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics contains one section, an essay of fifty pages, not previously published, as well as considerable additions to others sections.
This substantially revised edition of Wittgenstein's Remarks on the Foundations of Mathematics contains one section, an essay of fifty pages, not prev...
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175,07 zł |
Analysis by Its History
ISBN: 9780387945514 / Angielski / Twarda / 379 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book presents first-year calculus roughly in the order in which it was first discovered. The first two chapters show how the ancient calculations of practical problems led to infinite series, differential and integral calculus and to differential equations. The establishment of mathematical rigour for these subjects in the 19th century for one and several variables is treated in chapters III and IV. Many quotations are included to give the flavor of the history. The text is complemented by a large number of examples, calculations and mathematical pictures and will provide stimulating... This book presents first-year calculus roughly in the order in which it was first discovered. The first two chapters show how the ancient calculati... |
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213,34 zł |
Interactions: Mathematics, Physics and Philosophy, 1860-1930
ISBN: 9781402051944 / Angielski / Twarda / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The main theme of this anthology is the unique interaction between mathematics, physics and philosophy during the beginning of the 20th century. In this book, ten renowned philosopher-historians probe insightfully into key conceptual questions of pre-quantum mathematical physics. The result is a diverse yet thematically focused compilation of first class papers on mathematics, physics and philosophy, and a source-book on the interaction between them. The main theme of this anthology is the unique interaction between mathematics, physics and philosophy during the beginning of the 20th century. In... |
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582,32 zł |