Philosophy of mathematics books

Describes how strange attractors are classified and presents the simple algorithm for extracting this information...  Read More >>

This book analyzes the different ways in which mathematics is applicable to the physical sciences. Mark Steiner...  Read More >>

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Covers group theory and its applications, plus the theory of algebraic numbers. This book includes such topics as...  Read More >>

An entertaining, interactive mathematical exercise and an exploration of mathematical reasoning, this work is of...  Read More >>

"" The vigorous growth in the study of algorithmic information theory has continued during the past few years, which...  Read More >>

Questo volume raccoglie lo scambio epistolare tra Cantor e Dedekind, finora edito parte in tedesco e parte in francese....  Read More >>

This book teaches how mathematics can be beautiful. Este libro enseña como las matemáticas pueden ser bellas.  Read More >>

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This title argues that a new way of speaking of mathematics and describing it emerged at the end of the 16th century....  Read More >>

Exploring the work of Howard Stein, these essays treat such topics as: Plato's conception of exact science; the...  Read More >>

In Western Civilization Mathematics and Music have a long and interesting history in common, with several interactions,...  Read More >>

Brings together essays by twenty experts in the history of mathematics who have investigated the genesis of the...  Read More >>

Reason's Nearest Kin is a critical examination of the 1880s to the 1930s. Reassessing the innovations of Frege,...  Read More >>

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This work outlines and systematically defends a mathematically and logically sophisticated understanding of the...  Read More >>

Exploring the work of Howard Stein, these essays treat such topics as: Plato's conception of exact science; the...  Read More >>

Saluting the spirit of those who dared to look at the world in a new way, this insightful, revealing history explores...  Read More >>

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From the impossibility of a perfectly democratic vote to the creation of a model that clarifies affirmative action...  Read More >>

A welcome intervention in the science vs. humanities debate  Read More >>

A welcome intervention in the science vs. humanities debate  Read More >>

This text poses a broad challenge to the realist views of meaning and truth. Starting with a critical survey of...  Read More >>

Biographical and critical entries on 157 thinkers, from Ancient Greece to the Enlightenment.  Read More >>

The revised and updated edition includes three completely new chapters on the prediction and control of chaotic...  Read More >>