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  • Contemporary Mathematical Thinking

    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book deals with the evolution of mathematical thought during the 20th century. Representing a unique point of view combining mathematics, philosophy and history on this issue, it presents an original analysis of key authors, for example Bourbaki, Grothendieck and Husserl.As a product of 19th and early 20th century science, a canon of knowledge or a scientific ideology, mathematical ... Read more

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  • The Essence of Numbers

    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book considers the manifold possible approaches, past and present, to our understanding of the natural numbers. They are treated as epistemic objects: mathematical objects that have been subject to epistemological inquiry and attention throughout their history and whose conception has evolved accordingly. Although they are the simplest and most common mathematical objects, as this book ... Read more

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  • Classical Hopf Algebras and Their Applications

    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book is dedicated to the structure and combinatorics of classical Hopf algebras. Its main focus is on commutative and cocommutative Hopf algebras, such as algebras of representative functions on groups and enveloping algebras of Lie algebras, as explored in the works of Borel, Cartier, Hopf and others in the 1940s and 50s.The modern and systematic treatment uses the approach of natural ... Read more

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  • Credit Risk Frontiers

    Subprime Crisis, Pricing and Hedging, CVA, MBS, Ratings, and Liquidity

    Series Book 138 - Bloomberg Financial
    A timely guide to understanding and implementing credit derivativesCredit derivatives are here to stay and will continue to play a role in finance in the future. But what will that role be? What issues and challenges should be addressed? And what lessons can be learned from the credit mess?Credit Risk Frontiers offers answers to these and other questions by presenting the latest research in this ... Read more

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  • Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature

    Thirtieth-Anniversary Edition

    Series series Princeton Classics
    When it first appeared in 1979, Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature hit the philosophical world like a bombshell. In it, Richard Rorty argued that, beginning in the seventeenth century, philosophers developed an unhealthy obsession with the notion of representation: comparing the mind to a mirror that reflects reality. Rorty's book is a powerful critique of this imagery and the tradition of ... Read more

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  • On Logic and the Theory of Science

    A new translation of the final work of French philosopher Jean Cavaillès.In this short, dense essay, Jean Cavaillès evaluates philosophical efforts to determine the origin—logical or ontological—of scientific thought, arguing that, rather than seeking to found science in original intentional acts, a priori meanings, or foundational logical relations, any adequate theory must involve a history of ... Read more

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  • Philosophy of Mathematics

    Series series Handbook of the Philosophy of Science
    One of the most striking features of mathematics is the fact that we are much more certain about the mathematical knowledge we have than about what mathematical knowledge is knowledge of. Are numbers, sets, functions and groups physical entities of some kind? Are they objectively existing objects in some non-physical, mathematical realm? Are they ideas that are present only in the mind? Or do ... Read more

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    Series series Warwick Studies in European Philosophy
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    Series series Thought in the Act
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