Philosophy of mathematics books

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A Middle Way: A Non-Fundamental Approach to Many-Body Physics

A Middle Way: A Non-Fundamental Approach to Many-Body...

Author: Robert W. Batterman (Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of Pittsburgh)
ISBN: 9780197568613
Format: Hardback
$169.95

"Robert W. Batterman's monograph examines a ubiquitous methodology in physics and the science of materials that...  Read More >>

Math and Art: An Introduction to Visual Mathematics

Math and Art: An Introduction to Visual Mathematics...

Author: Sasho Kalajdzievski (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada)
ISBN: 9780367076115
Format: Paperback
$124.00

This introduction explores the potential of mathematics to generate visually appealing objects and reveals some...  Read More >>

Math and Art: An Introduction to Visual Mathematics

Math and Art: An Introduction to Visual Mathematics...

Author: Sasho Kalajdzievski (University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada)
ISBN: 9780367076139
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This introduction explores the potential of mathematics to generate visually appealing objects and reveals some...  Read More >>

Paul Lorenzen -- Mathematician and Logician

Paul Lorenzen -- Mathematician and Logician

Author: Gerhard Heinzmann ,  Gereon Wolters
ISBN: 9783030658267
Format: Paperback
$90.54

This open access book examines the many contributions of Paul Lorenzen, an outstanding philosopher from the latter...  Read More >>

Louis Couturat: The History of Modern Symbolic Logic and Other French Manuscripts

Louis Couturat: The History of Modern Symbolic Logic...

Author: Oliver Schlaudt ,  Anne-Francoise Schmid
ISBN: 9783030848279
Format: Hardback
$310.47

This volume features a critical edition of the recently rediscovered manuscripts written by the French philosopher...  Read More >>

Number Systems: A Path into Rigorous Mathematics

Number Systems: A Path into Rigorous Mathematics

Author: Anthony Kay
ISBN: 9780367180614
Format: Paperback
$124.00

This book aims to introduce number systems to an undergraduate audience in a way that emphasises the importance...  Read More >>

Number Systems: A Path into Rigorous Mathematics

Number Systems: A Path into Rigorous Mathematics

Author: Anthony Kay
ISBN: 9780367180652
Format: Hardback
$315.00

This book aims to introduce number systems to an undergraduate audience in a way that emphasises the importance...  Read More >>

Dynamis: Ontology of the Incommensurable

Dynamis: Ontology of the Incommensurable

Author: Gaetano Chiurazzi ,  Robert T. Valgenti
ISBN: 9783030690045
Format: Hardback
$343.17

This book offers a new and original hypothesis on the origin of modal ontology, whose roots can be traced back to...  Read More >>

Wittgenstein’s Annotations to Hardy’s Course of Pure Mathematics: An Investigation of Wittgenstein’s Non-Extensionalist Understanding of the Real Numbers

Wittgenstein’s Annotations to Hardy’s Course of Pure...

Author: Juliet Floyd ,  Felix Mühlhölzer
ISBN: 9783030484835
Format: Paperback
$369.57

This monograph examines the private annotations that Ludwig Wittgenstein made to his copy of G.H. Hardy’s classic...  Read More >>

Mathematics and Information in the Philosophy of Michel Serres

Mathematics and Information in the Philosophy of Michel...

Author: Vera Bühlmann (senior researcher, Vienna University of Technology, Austria)
ISBN: 9781350251328
Format: Paperback
$64.99

This book introduces the reader to Serres’ unique manner of ‘doing philosophy’ that can be traced throughout his...  Read More >>

Knowledge and the Philosophy of Number: What Numbers Are and How They Are Known

Knowledge and the Philosophy of Number: What Numbers...

Author: Dr Keith Hossack (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK)
ISBN: 9781350277960
Format: Paperback
$64.99

If numbers were objects, how could there be human knowledge of number? Numbers are not physical objects: must we...  Read More >>

Epistemology and Natural Philosophy in the 18th Century: The Roots of Modern Physics

Epistemology and Natural Philosophy in the 18th Century:...

Author: Danilo Capecchi
ISBN: 9783030528546
Format: Paperback
$527.97

It focuses on the 18th century, which has often been considered uninteresting for the history of science, representing...  Read More >>

Adventures of Mind and Mathematics

Adventures of Mind and Mathematics

Author: Wolff-Michael Roth
ISBN: 9783030518110
Format: Paperback
$369.57

This monograph uses the concept and category of “event” in the study of mathematics as it emerges from an interaction...  Read More >>

Paul Lorenzen -- Mathematician and Logician

Paul Lorenzen -- Mathematician and Logician

Author: Gerhard Heinzmann ,  Gereon Wolters
ISBN: 9783030658236
Format: Hardback
$145.17

This open access book examines the many contributions of Paul Lorenzen, an outstanding philosopher from the latter...  Read More >>

Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics

Wittgenstein's Philosophy of Mathematics

Author: Juliet Floyd (Boston University)
ISBN: 9781108456302
Format: Paperback
$43.99

For Wittgenstein mathematics is a human activity characterizing ways of seeing conceptual possibilities and empirical...  Read More >>

Les Mathematiques Comme Metaphore: Essais Choisis

Les Mathematiques Comme Metaphore: Essais Choisis

Author: Yuri Manin ,  Claire Vajou
ISBN: 9782251451725
Format: Paperback
$87.12

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Encounters with Euclid: How an Ancient Greek Geometry Text Shaped the World

Encounters with Euclid: How an Ancient Greek Geometry...

Author: Benjamin Wardhaugh
ISBN: 9780008299941
Format: Paperback
$24.99

‘An astonishingly readable and informative history of the greatest mathematical bestseller of all time … The writing...  Read More >>

Anachronisms in the History of Mathematics: Essays on the Historical Interpretation of Mathematical Texts

Anachronisms in the History of Mathematics: Essays on...

Author: Niccolò Guicciardini (Università degli Studi di Milano)
ISBN: 9781108834964
Format: Hardback
$323.44

This volume gathers high quality and innovative essays on the history of mathematics from ancient to modern times...  Read More >>

Mereology

Mereology

Author: A. J. Cotnoir ,  Achille C. Varzi
ISBN: 9780198749004
Format: Hardback
$248.95

Aaron Cotnoir and Achille Varzi present a comprehensive and up-to-date guide to mereology, the study of relations...  Read More >>

Conceptions of Set and the Foundations of Mathematics

Conceptions of Set and the Foundations of Mathematics...

Author: Luca Incurvati (Universiteit van Amsterdam)
ISBN: 9781108708791
Format: Paperback
$80.19

This book presents a detailed and critical examination of the conceptions of set on offer and defends a novel version...  Read More >>

Monthly Problem Gems

Monthly Problem Gems

Author: Hongwei Chen (Department of Mathematics, Christopher Newport University.)
ISBN: 9780367766771
Format: Paperback
$54.99

This book is an outgrowth of a collection of sixty-two problems offered in the The American Mathematical Monthly...  Read More >>

Monthly Problem Gems

Monthly Problem Gems

Author: Hongwei Chen (Department of Mathematics, Christopher Newport University.)
ISBN: 9780367766788
Format: Hardback
$368.00

This book is an outgrowth of a collection of sixty-two problems offered in the The American Mathematical Monthly...  Read More >>

Leibniz’s Legacy and Impact

Leibniz’s Legacy and Impact

Author: Julia Weckend (Oxford University, UK) ,  Lloyd Strickland
ISBN: 9781032089843
Format: Paperback
$83.99

Leibniz made contributions to many areas, including philosophy, mathematics, political and social theory, theology,...  Read More >>

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