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Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity

A Compact History of Infinity

by David Foster Wallace ...

"A gripping guide to the modern taming of the infinite."—The New York Times. With a new introduction by Neal Stephenson.Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? David Foster Wallace brings his intellectual ambition and characteristic bravura style to the story of how mathematicians have struggled to understand the infinite, from the ancient Greeks to the nineteenth ... Read more

$17.49 CAD

"A gripping guide to the modern taming of the infinite."—The New York Times. With a new introduction by Neal Stephenson.Is infinity a valid mathematical property or a meaningless abstraction? David Foster Wallace brings his intellectual ambition and characteristic bravura style to the story of how mathematicians have struggled to understand the infinite, from the ancient Greeks to the nineteenth
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Mathématiques en 30 secondes

Les 50 plus grandes théories en mathématique

by Richard Brown ...

Translated by Eulalie Steens ...

Le nombre Pi, la poussée d’Archimède et la trigonométrie ne sont pour vous que de lointains souvenirs d’école. Les équations comme les polynômes ou les fractales vous laissent pantois. Mathématiques en 30 secondes saura vous initier à ce champ de connaissances qui mêle rigueur et poésie. Cet ouvrage de vulgarisation intelligente vous éclairera sur les 50 principales théories en mathématiques en un ... Read more

$10.99 CAD

Le nombre Pi, la poussée d’Archimède et la trigonométrie ne sont pour vous que de lointains souvenirs d’école. Les équations comme les polynômes ou les fractales vous laissent pantois. Mathématiques en 30 secondes saura vous initier à ce champ de connaissances qui mêle rigueur et poésie. Cet ouvrage de vulgarisation intelligente vous éclairera sur les 50 principales théories en mathématiques en un
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Journey to the Edge of Reason

The Life of Kurt Gödel

by Stephen Budiansky ...

The first major biography written for a general audience 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 ... Read more

$21.29 CAD

The first major biography written for a general audience 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
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The System of the World(Best Navigation, Active TOC)

by Isaac Newton ...

The System of the World by Isaac Newton. Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) was an English physicist and mathematician who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution.This great work supplied the momentum for the Scientific Revolution and dominated physics for over 200 years.It was the ancient opinion of not a few, in the ... Read more

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The System of the World by Isaac Newton. Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727) was an English physicist and mathematician who is widely recognised as one of the most influential scientists of all time and as a key figure in the scientific revolution.This great work supplied the momentum for the Scientific Revolution and dominated physics for over 200 years.It was the ancient opinion of not a few, in the
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Discover Your Inner Psychic

A practical guide to psychic development & spiritual growth

by Tara Ward ...

Psychic abilities are innate to all humans. This illustrated book helps you to explore and develop this inner part of yourself through a series of meditations and exercises. Through these you will learn how to:• Read auras• Open the seven chakras• Channel and balance your energy• Use colours, scents and crystals to alter your space• Practice psychometry readings and flower clairsentienceThrough ... Read more

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Psychic abilities are innate to all humans. This illustrated book helps you to explore and develop this inner part of yourself through a series of meditations and exercises. Through these you will learn how to:• Read auras• Open the seven chakras• Channel and balance your energy• Use colours, scents and crystals to alter your space• Practice psychometry readings and flower clairsentienceThrough
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The Baseball Mysteries

Challenging Puzzles for Logical Detectives

by Jerry Butters, Jim Henle ...

Series series AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series
The Baseball Mysteries: Challenging Puzzles for Logical Detectives is a book of baseball puzzles, logical baseball puzzles. To jump in, all you need is logic and a casual fan’s knowledge of the game. The puzzles are solved by reasoning from the rules of the game and a few facts.The logic in the puzzles is like legal reasoning. A solution must argue from evidence (the facts) and law (the rules). ... Read more

$53.58 CAD

The Baseball Mysteries: Challenging Puzzles for Logical Detectives is a book of baseball puzzles, logical baseball puzzles. To jump in, all you need is logic and a casual fan’s knowledge of the game. The puzzles are solved by reasoning from the rules of the game and a few facts.The logic in the puzzles is like legal reasoning. A solution must argue from evidence (the facts) and law (the rules).
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Introduction to Set Theory, Revised and Expanded

by Karel Hrbacek, Thomas Jech ...

Series series Chapman & Hall/CRC Pure and Applied Mathematics
Thoroughly revised, updated, expanded, and reorganized to serve as a primary text for mathematics courses, Introduction to Set Theory, Third Edition covers the basics: relations, functions, orderings, finite, countable, and uncountable sets, and cardinal and ordinal numbers. It also provides five additional self-contained chapters, consolidates the material on real numbers into a single updated ... Read more

$200.62 CAD

Thoroughly revised, updated, expanded, and reorganized to serve as a primary text for mathematics courses, Introduction to Set Theory, Third Edition covers the basics: relations, functions, orderings, finite, countable, and uncountable sets, and cardinal and ordinal numbers. It also provides five additional self-contained chapters, consolidates the material on real numbers into a single updated
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Naive Set Theory

by Paul R. Halmos ...

Series series Dover Books on Mathematics
This classic by one of the twentieth century's most prominent mathematicians offers a concise introduction to set theory. Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in mathematics, it employs the language and notation of informal mathematics. There are very few displayed theorems; most of the facts are stated in simple terms, followed by a sketch of the proof. Only a few exercises ... Read more

$14.29 CAD

This classic by one of the twentieth century's most prominent mathematicians offers a concise introduction to set theory. Suitable for advanced undergraduates and graduate students in mathematics, it employs the language and notation of informal mathematics. There are very few displayed theorems; most of the facts are stated in simple terms, followed by a sketch of the proof. Only a few exercises
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Lectures on Real Analysis

by Finnur Lárusson ...

Series Book 21 - Australian Mathematical Society Lecture Series
This is a rigorous introduction to real analysis for undergraduate students, starting from the axioms for a complete ordered field and a little set theory. The book avoids any preconceptions about the real numbers and takes them to be nothing but the elements of a complete ordered field. All of the standard topics are included, as well as a proper treatment of the trigonometric functions, which ... Read more

$61.59 CAD

This is a rigorous introduction to real analysis for undergraduate students, starting from the axioms for a complete ordered field and a little set theory. The book avoids any preconceptions about the real numbers and takes them to be nothing but the elements of a complete ordered field. All of the standard topics are included, as well as a proper treatment of the trigonometric functions, which
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Abstract Sets and Finite Ordinals

An Introduction to the Study of Set Theory

by G. B. Keene ...

Series series Dover Books on Mathematics
This text unites the logical and philosophical aspects of set theory in a manner intelligible both to mathematicians without training in formal logic and to logicians without a mathematical background. It combines an elementary level of treatment with the highest possible degree of logical rigor and precision.Starting with an explanation of all the basic logical terms and related operations, the ... Read more

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This text unites the logical and philosophical aspects of set theory in a manner intelligible both to mathematicians without training in formal logic and to logicians without a mathematical background. It combines an elementary level of treatment with the highest possible degree of logical rigor and precision.Starting with an explanation of all the basic logical terms and related operations, the
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Set Theory

A First Course

by Daniel W. Cunningham ...

Series series Cambridge Mathematical Textbooks
Set theory is a rich and beautiful subject whose fundamental concepts permeate virtually every branch of mathematics. One could say that set theory is a unifying theory for mathematics, since nearly all mathematical concepts and results can be formalized within set theory. This textbook is meant for an upper undergraduate course in set theory. In this text, the fundamentals of abstract sets, ... Read more

$66.39 CAD

Set theory is a rich and beautiful subject whose fundamental concepts permeate virtually every branch of mathematics. One could say that set theory is a unifying theory for mathematics, since nearly all mathematical concepts and results can be formalized within set theory. This textbook is meant for an upper undergraduate course in set theory. In this text, the fundamentals of abstract sets,
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Elements of Set Theory

by Herbert B. Enderton ...

This is an introductory undergraduate textbook in set theory. In mathematics these days, essentially everything is a set. Some knowledge of set theory is necessary part of the background everyone needs for further study of mathematics. It is also possible to study set theory for its own interest--it is a subject with intruiging results anout simple objects. This book starts with material that ... Read more

$51.19 CAD

This is an introductory undergraduate textbook in set theory. In mathematics these days, essentially everything is a set. Some knowledge of set theory is necessary part of the background everyone needs for further study of mathematics. It is also possible to study set theory for its own interest--it is a subject with intruiging results anout simple objects. This book starts with material that
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Esercizi di matematica: teoria degli insiemi e funzioni

by Simone Malacrida ...

In questo libro sono svolti degli esercizi riguardo i seguenti argomenti matematici:teoria degli insiemifunzioni e proprietà delle funzioniSono altresì presentati dei cenni teorici iniziali per fare comprendere lo svolgimento degli esercizi. ... Read more

$4.99 CAD

In questo libro sono svolti degli esercizi riguardo i seguenti argomenti matematici:teoria degli insiemifunzioni e proprietà delle funzioniSono altresì presentati dei cenni teorici iniziali per fare comprendere lo svolgimento degli esercizi.
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The Art of Proving Binomial Identities

by Michael Z. Spivey ...

Series series Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications
The Art of Proving Binomial Identities accomplishes two goals: (1) It provides a unified treatment of the binomial coefficients, and (2) Brings together much of the undergraduate mathematics curriculum via one theme (the binomial coefficients). The binomial coefficients arise in a variety of areas of mathematics: combinatorics, of course, but also basic algebra (binomial theorem), infinite series ... Read more

$96.18 CAD

The Art of Proving Binomial Identities accomplishes two goals: (1) It provides a unified treatment of the binomial coefficients, and (2) Brings together much of the undergraduate mathematics curriculum via one theme (the binomial coefficients). The binomial coefficients arise in a variety of areas of mathematics: combinatorics, of course, but also basic algebra (binomial theorem), infinite series
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q-Rung Orthopair Fuzzy Sets

Theory and Applications

Edited by Harish Garg ...

Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
This book collects chapters which discuss interdisciplinary solutions to complex problems by using different approaches in order to save money, time and resources. The book presents the results on the recent advancements in artificial intelligence, computational intelligence, decision-making problems, emerging problems and practical achievements in the broad knowledge management field. q-ROFS is ... Read more

$115.29 CAD

This book collects chapters which discuss interdisciplinary solutions to complex problems by using different approaches in order to save money, time and resources. The book presents the results on the recent advancements in artificial intelligence, computational intelligence, decision-making problems, emerging problems and practical achievements in the broad knowledge management field. q-ROFS is
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Introduction to Model Theory

by Philipp Rothmaler ...

Series series Algebra, Logic and Applications
Model theory investigates mathematical structures by means of formal languages. So-called first-order languages have proved particularly useful in this respect. This text introduces the model theory of first-order logic, avoiding syntactical issues not too relevant to model theory. In this spirit, the compactness theorem is proved via the algebraically useful ultrsproduct technique (rather than ... Read more

$159.39 CAD

Model theory investigates mathematical structures by means of formal languages. So-called first-order languages have proved particularly useful in this respect. This text introduces the model theory of first-order logic, avoiding syntactical issues not too relevant to model theory. In this spirit, the compactness theorem is proved via the algebraically useful ultrsproduct technique (rather than
... Read more
Introduction to Mathematical Logic

by Elliott Mendelson ...

Series series Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications
The new edition of this classic textbook, Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Sixth Edition explores the principal topics of mathematical logic. It covers propositional logic, first-order logic, first-order number theory, axiomatic set theory, and the theory of computability. The text also discusses the major results of Godel, Church, Kleene, Rosse ... Read more

$104.42 CAD

The new edition of this classic textbook, Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Sixth Edition explores the principal topics of mathematical logic. It covers propositional logic, first-order logic, first-order number theory, axiomatic set theory, and the theory of computability. The text also discusses the major results of Godel, Church, Kleene, Rosse
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Intensionality

Lecture Notes in Logic 22

Edited by Reinhard Kahle ...

A compilation of articles about Intensionality in philosophy, logic, linguistics, and mathematics. The articles approach the concept of Intensionality from different perspectives. Some articles address philosophical issues raised by the possible worlds approach to intensionality; others are devoted to technical aspects of modal logic. The volume hi ... Read more

$97.55 CAD

A compilation of articles about Intensionality in philosophy, logic, linguistics, and mathematics. The articles approach the concept of Intensionality from different perspectives. Some articles address philosophical issues raised by the possible worlds approach to intensionality; others are devoted to technical aspects of modal logic. The volume hi
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Handbook of Research on the Applications of Neutrosophic Sets Theory and Their Extensions in Education

Edited by Said Broumi ...

Fuzzy sets have experienced multiple expansions since their conception to enhance their capacity to convey complex information. Intuitionistic fuzzy sets, image fuzzy sets, q-rung orthopair fuzzy sets, and neutrosophic sets are a few of these extensions. Researchers and academics have acquired a lot of information about their theories and methods for making decisions. However, only a small number ... Read more

$383.99 CAD

Fuzzy sets have experienced multiple expansions since their conception to enhance their capacity to convey complex information. Intuitionistic fuzzy sets, image fuzzy sets, q-rung orthopair fuzzy sets, and neutrosophic sets are a few of these extensions. Researchers and academics have acquired a lot of information about their theories and methods for making decisions. However, only a small number
... Read more
Roads to Infinity

The Mathematics of Truth and Proof

by John Stillwell ...

Series series AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series
Winner of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award for 2011!This book offers an introduction to modern ideas about infinity and their implications for mathematics. It unifies ideas from set theory and mathematical logic, and traces their effects on mainstream mathematical topics of today, such as number theory and combinatorics. The treatment is historical and partly informal, but with due ... Read more

$94.81 CAD

Winner of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award for 2011!This book offers an introduction to modern ideas about infinity and their implications for mathematics. It unifies ideas from set theory and mathematical logic, and traces their effects on mainstream mathematical topics of today, such as number theory and combinatorics. The treatment is historical and partly informal, but with due
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CounterExamples

From Elementary Calculus to the Beginnings of Analysis

by Andrei Bourchtein, Ludmila Bourchtein ...

Series series Textbooks in Mathematics
This book provides a one-semester undergraduate introduction to counterexamples in calculus and analysis. It helps engineering, natural sciences, and mathematics students tackle commonly made erroneous conjectures. The book encourages students to think critically and analytically, and helps to reveal common errors in many examples.In this book, the ... Read more

$114.04 CAD

This book provides a one-semester undergraduate introduction to counterexamples in calculus and analysis. It helps engineering, natural sciences, and mathematics students tackle commonly made erroneous conjectures. The book encourages students to think critically and analytically, and helps to reveal common errors in many examples.In this book, the
... Read more
Combinatory Logic

Pure, Applied and Typed

by Katalin Bimbó ...

Series series Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications
Combinatory logic is a versatile field that is connected to philosophical, mathematical, and computational logic. This comprehensive reference on combinatory logic covers results in the field from the last four decades along with classical information on the topic. The author makes combinatory logic simple to understand while providing working knowledge that is rigorous, current, and readable. ... Read more

$116.79 CAD

Combinatory logic is a versatile field that is connected to philosophical, mathematical, and computational logic. This comprehensive reference on combinatory logic covers results in the field from the last four decades along with classical information on the topic. The author makes combinatory logic simple to understand while providing working knowledge that is rigorous, current, and readable.
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Formal Methods in Computer Science

by Jiacun Wang, William Tepfenhart ...

Series series Textbooks in Mathematics
This textbook gives students a comprehensive introduction to formal methods and their application in software and hardware specification and verification. It has three parts: The first part introduces some fundamentals in formal methods, including set theory, functions, finite state machines, and regular expressions. The second part focuses on logi ... Read more

$173.13 CAD

This textbook gives students a comprehensive introduction to formal methods and their application in software and hardware specification and verification. It has three parts: The first part introduces some fundamentals in formal methods, including set theory, functions, finite state machines, and regular expressions. The second part focuses on logi
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Set Theory and Logic

by Robert R. Stoll ...

Series series Dover Books on Mathematics
Set Theory and Logic is the result of a course of lectures for advanced undergraduates, developed at Oberlin College for the purpose of introducing students to the conceptual foundations of mathematics. Mathematics, specifically the real number system, is approached as a unity whose operations can be logically ordered through axioms. One of the most complex and essential of modern mathematical ... Read more

$24.19 CAD

Set Theory and Logic is the result of a course of lectures for advanced undergraduates, developed at Oberlin College for the purpose of introducing students to the conceptual foundations of mathematics. Mathematics, specifically the real number system, is approached as a unity whose operations can be logically ordered through axioms. One of the most complex and essential of modern mathematical
... Read more

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