Philosophy of mathematics books

2985 books were found.

The Booles and the Hintons: Two Dynasties That Helped Shape the Modern World

The Booles and the Hintons: Two Dynasties That Helped...

Author: Gerry Kennedy
ISBN: 9781782051855
Format: Hardback
$64.56

Gerry Kennedy set off on a tour through Russia, China, Japan and the USA . Only dimly aware of his Victorian ancestors:...  Read More >>

Explanation in Ethics and Mathematics: Debunking and Dispensability

Explanation in Ethics and Mathematics: Debunking and...

Author: Uri D. Leibowitz (, University of Nottingham) ,  Neil Sinclair (, University of Nottingham)
ISBN: 9780198778592
Format: Hardback
$176.95

How far should our realism extend, and how should we understand the entities referred to by mathematical and ethical...  Read More >>

Circularity: A Common Secret To Paradoxes, Scientific Revolutions And Humor

Circularity: A Common Secret To Paradoxes, Scientific...

Author: Ron Aharoni (Technion, Israel Inst Of Tech, Israel)
ISBN: 9789814723671
Format: Hardback
$124.20

The book is divided into 8-10 chapters that are each only 2 or 3 pages long … this feels like a nice feature of...  Read More >>

A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design

A Beautiful Question: Finding Nature's Deep Design

Author: Frank Wilczek
ISBN: 9780143109365
Format: Paperback
$52.80

The author argues that beauty is at the heart of the logic of the universe, a principle that has guided his pioneering...  Read More >>

Kontinuum, Analysis, Informales – Beiträge zur Mathematik und Philosophie von Leibniz: Herausgegeben von W. Li

Kontinuum, Analysis, Informales – Beiträge zur Mathematik...

Author: Herbert Breger ,  Wenchao Li
ISBN: 9783662503980
Format: Paperback
$72.42

Dieser Band führt 16 Aufsätze von Herbert Breger zusammen, die um Leibniz‘ Arbeiten zur Mathematik und Physik und...  Read More >>

Mathematical Cultures: The London Meetings 2012-2014

Mathematical Cultures: The London Meetings 2012-2014...

Author: Brendan Larvor
ISBN: 9783319285801
Format: Hardback
$336.35

Thiscollection presents significant contributions from an international network project on mathematicalcultures,...  Read More >>

Mathematics Education Across Time and Place: Over Two Millennia from Athens to Zimbabwe

Mathematics Education Across Time and Place: Over Two...

Author: Thomas O'Shea (U S Geological Survey Fort Collins Colorado USA)
ISBN: 9781460286098
Format: Paperback
$77.85

What is mathematics, and what aspects of it should be taught in schools? How and to whom should it be taught, and...  Read More >>

Mathematics Education Across Time and Place: Over Two Millennia from Athens to Zimbabwe

Mathematics Education Across Time and Place: Over Two...

Author: Thomas O'Shea (U S Geological Survey Fort Collins Colorado USA)
ISBN: 9781460286081
Format: Hardback
$126.69

What is mathematics, and what aspects of it should be taught in schools? How and to whom should it be taught, and...  Read More >>

From Mathematics to Philosophy (Routledge Revivals)

From Mathematics to Philosophy (Routledge Revivals)...

Author: Hao Wang
ISBN: 9781138687738
Format: Hardback
$378.00

First published in 1974. Despite the tendency of contemporary analytic philosophy to put logic and mathematics at...  Read More >>

Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure

Birth of a Theorem: A Mathematical Adventure

Author: Cédric Villani ,  Malcolm Debevoise
ISBN: 9780374536671
Format: Paperback
$68.64

""An intimate look inside a mathematician's mind as he wrestles with the theorem that will make his reputation""--...  Read More >>

Summing It Up: From One Plus One to Modern Number Theory

Summing It Up: From One Plus One to Modern Number Theory...

Author: Avner Ash ,  Robert Gross
ISBN: 9780691170190
Format: Hardback
$73.79

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Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain: Engraved from Authentic Pictures in the Galleries of the Nobility, and the Public Collections of the Country: With Biographical and Historical Memoirs of Their Lives and Actions, Volume 9

Portraits of Illustrious Personages of Great Britain:...

Author: Edmund Lodge
ISBN: 9781354977934
Format: Hardback
$65.87

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization...  Read More >>

Self-Surrender

Self-Surrender

Author: Euphemia E G Bussell
ISBN: 9781354852699
Format: Hardback
$60.59

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Islamic Perspectives on Science and Technology: Selected Conference Papers

Islamic Perspectives on Science and Technology: Selected...

Author: Mohammad Hashim Kamali ,  Osman Bakar
ISBN: 9789812877772
Format: Hardback
$527.97

This book presents 25 selected papers from the International Conference on “Developing Synergies between Islam &...  Read More >>

Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences: Volume One

Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy...

Author: Ivor Grattan-Guiness
ISBN: 9781138688117
Format: Paperback
$118.00

First Published in 2004. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy of the Mathematical Sciences: Volume Two

Companion Encyclopedia of the History and Philosophy...

Author: Ivor Grattan-Guiness
ISBN: 9781138688162
Format: Paperback
$118.00

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Raum und Wissen: Elemente einer Theorie epistemischen Diagrammgebrauchs

Raum und Wissen: Elemente einer Theorie epistemischen...

Author: Jan Wöpking
ISBN: 9783110441666
Format: Hardback
$205.83

This volume investigates the use of diagrams for the purposes of information. Using key scenes from Euclidian geometry...  Read More >>

Math Mutation Classics: Exploring Interesting, Fun and Weird Corners of Mathematics

Math Mutation Classics: Exploring Interesting, Fun and...

Author: Erik Seligman
ISBN: 9781484218914
Format: Paperback
$73.89

Use math in unique ways to analyze things you observe in life and use proof to attain the unexpected. Along the...  Read More >>

Oppositions and Paradoxes: Philosophical Perplexities in Science and Mathematics

Oppositions and Paradoxes: Philosophical Perplexities...

Author: John L. Bell
ISBN: 9781554813025
Format: Paperback
$102.83

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Essays in Mathematical Economics, in Honor of Oskar Morgenstern

Essays in Mathematical Economics, in Honor of Oskar...

Author: Martin Shubik
ISBN: 9780691650180
Format: Hardback
$320.00

Professor Morgenstern's deep interests in economic time series and problems of measurement are represented by path-breaking...  Read More >>

Analytic Functions

Analytic Functions

Author: Lars Valerian Ahlfors
ISBN: 9780691652436
Format: Hardback
$165.00

A survey of recent developments both in the classical and modern fields of the theory. Contents include: The complex...  Read More >>

Matrices and Society: Matrix Algebra and Its Applications in the Social Sciences

Matrices and Society: Matrix Algebra and Its Applications...

Author: Ian Bradley ,  Ronald L. Meek
ISBN: 9780691638362
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Matrices offer some of the most powerful techniques in modem mathematics. In the social sciences they provide fresh...  Read More >>

The Enjoyment of Math

The Enjoyment of Math

Author: Hans Rademacher ,  Otto Toeplitz
ISBN: 9780691652962
Format: Hardback
$175.00

What is so special about the number 30? How many colors are needed to color a map? Do the prime numbers go on forever?...  Read More >>

Approximations for Digital Computers

Approximations for Digital Computers

Author: Cecil Hastings, Jr. ,  Jeanne T. Wayward
ISBN: 9780691653105
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Numerical analysts and computer operators in all fields will welcome this publication in book form of Cecil Hastings'...  Read More >>

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