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Series
Publisher
G. Allen & Unwin
Pub. Date
[1919]
Language
English
Description
As a mathematician, philosopher, logician, historian, socialist, pacifist, and social critic, Bertrand Russell is noted for his "revolt against idealism" in Britain in the early 20th century, as well as his pacifist activism during WWI, a campaign against Adolf Hitler and later the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War. In addition to his political activism, he is considered to be one of the founders of analytic philosophy, receiving the Nobel...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
[1994]
Language
English
Description
The Universe May Be a Mystery,But It's No SecretMichael Schneider leads us on a spectacular, lavishly illustrated journey along the numbers one through ten to explore the mathematical principles made visible in flowers, shells, crystals, plants, and the human body, expressed in the symbolic language of folk sayings and fairy tales, myth and religion, art and architecture. This is a new view of mathematics, not the one we learned at school but a comprehensive...
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Roland Omnès is Professor Emeritus of Physics at the University of Paris-Sud. His books include Understanding Quantum Mechanics and The Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics (both Princeton), L'Univers et ses Metamorphoses, and Introduction to Particle Physics.
In this magisterial work, Roland Omnès takes us from the academies of ancient Greece to the laboratories of modern science as he seeks to do no less than rebuild the foundations of the philosophy...
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
This reader-friendly volume groups the patterns of mathematics into five archetypes: numbers, space, logic, infinity, and information. Rudy Rucker presents an accessible introduction to each of these important areas, reflecting intelligence gathered from the frontiers of mathematical thought. More than 100 drawings illuminate explorations of digital versus analog processes, logic as a computing tool, communication as information transmission, and...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The first major biography of the logician and mathematician whose incompleteness theorems helped launch a modern scientific revolution. Nearly a hundred years after its publication, Kurt Gödel's famous proof that every mathematical system must contain propositions that are true--yet never provable--continues to unsettle mathematics, philosophy, and computer science. Yet unlike Einstein, with whom he formed a warm and abiding friendship, Gödel has...
Author
Publisher
Mitchell Lane Publishers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A biography of the Greek mathematician-philosopher Pythagoras who, at the age of fifty, founded a school of higher mathematics, philosophy, music, and religion. His lessons still impact our scientific and moral communities today.
18) Philosophical grammar: part I, The proposition, and its sense, part II, On logic and mathematics
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
1974.
Language
English
