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  • Lazare and Sadi Carnot

    A Scientific and Filial Relationship

    par Charles Coulston Gillispie, Raffaele Pisano ...
    Collections series Engineering (R0)
    Lazare Carnot was the unique example in the history of science of someone who inadvertently owed the scientific recognition he eventually achieved to earlier political prominence. He and his son Sadi produced work that derived from their training as engineering and went largely unnoticed by physicists for a generation or more, even though their respective work introduced concepts that proved ... En savoir plus

    $179.99 CAD

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  • Is God a Mathematician?

    par Mario Livio ...
    Bestselling author and astrophysicist Mario Livio examines the lives and theories of history’s greatest mathematicians to ask how—if mathematics is an abstract construction of the human mind—it can so perfectly explain the physical world.Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner once wondered about “the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics” in the formulation of the laws of nature. Is God a Mathematician? ... En savoir plus

    $18.99 CAD

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  • A Certain Ambiguity

    A Mathematical Novel (New in Paper)

    par Gaurav Suri, Hartosh Singh Bal ...
    While taking a class on infinity at Stanford in the late 1980s, Ravi Kapoor discovers that he is confronting the same mathematical and philosophical dilemmas that his mathematician grandfather had faced many decades earlier--and that had landed him in jail. Charged under an obscure blasphemy law in a small New Jersey town in 1919, Vijay Sahni is challenged by a skeptical judge to defend his belief ... En savoir plus

    $23.99 CAD

  • Philosophical Devices: Proofs, Probabilities, Possibilities, and Sets

    Proofs, Probabilities, Possibilities, and Sets

    par David Papineau ...
    This book is designed to explain the technical ideas that are taken for granted in much contemporary philosophical writing. Notions like 'denumerability', 'modal scope distinction', 'Bayesian conditionalization', and 'logical completeness' are usually only elucidated deep within difficult specialist texts. By offering simple explanations that by-pass much irrelevant and boring detail, ... En savoir plus

    $20.99 CAD

  • Uncertainty

    The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics

    par William Briggs ...
    Collections series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This book presents a philosophical approach to probability and probabilistic thinking, considering the underpinnings of probabilistic reasoning and modeling, which effectively underlie everything in data science. The ultimate goal is to call into question many standard tenets and lay the philosophical and probabilistic groundwork and infrastructure for statistical modeling. It is the first book ... En savoir plus

    $128.99 CAD

  • Causality

    Philosophical Theory meets Scientific Practice

    par Phyllis Illari, Federica Russo ...
    Head hits cause brain damage - but not always. Should we ban sport to protect athletes? Exposure to electromagnetic fields is strongly associated with cancer development - does that mean exposure causes cancer? Should we encourage old fashioned communication instead of mobile phones to reduce cancer rates? According to popular wisdom, the Mediterranean diet keeps you healthy. Is this belief ... En savoir plus

    $53.99 CAD

  • Introducing Bertrand Russell

    A Graphic Guide

    par Dave Robinson, Judy Groves ...
    Collections series Graphic Guides
    Bertrand Russell changed Western philosophy forever. He tackled many puzzles--how our minds work, how we experience the world, and what the true nature of meaning is. In "Introducing Bertrand Russell "we meet a passionate eccentric, active in world politics, who had outspoken views on sex, marriage, religion, and education. ... En savoir plus

    $6.99 CAD ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Ultimate Explanations of the Universe

    par Michael Heller ...
    Collections series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    We humans are collectively driven by a powerful - yet not fully explained - instinct to understand. We would like to see everything established, proven, laid bare. The more important an issue, the more we desire to see it clarified, stripped of all secrets, all shades of gray. What could be more important than to understand the Universe and ourselves as a part of it? To find a window onto our ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • Abstraction and Representation

    Essays on the Cultural Evolution of Thinking

    par Peter Damerow ...
    Collections series History (R0)
    The author of this book is affiliated with the Center for Development and Socialization of the Max Planck Institute for Human Development and Ed ucation in Berlin and heads its program on culture and cognition which de votes its labors to the reconstruction of scientific concepts through history in a perspective of what might be called "historical epistemology." He is also a member of a related ... En savoir plus

    $179.99 CAD

  • On the Teaching of Linear Algebra

    Modifié par J.-L. Dorier ...
    Collections series Education (R0)
    To a large extent, it lies, no doubt, in what is presented in this work under the title of ‘meta lever‘, a method which it is certainly interesting to develop and further refine. There exists in mathematics courses a strange prudery which forbids one to ask questions such as, ‹‹ Why are we doing this? », ‹‹ At what is the objective aimed? », whereas it is usually easy to reply to such questions, ... En savoir plus

    $268.99 CAD

  • From Logic to Practice

    Italian Studies in the Philosophy of Mathematics

    Modifié par Gabriele Lolli, Marco Panza, Giorgio Venturi ...
    Collections series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    This book brings together young researchers from a variety of fields within mathematics, philosophy and logic. It discusses questions that arise in their work, as well as themes and reactions that appear to be similar in different contexts. The book shows that a fairly intensive activity in the philosophy of mathematics is underway, due on the one hand to the disillusionment with respect to ... En savoir plus

    $64.99 CAD

  • Models and Inferences in Science

    Modifié par Emiliano Ippoliti, Fabio Sterpetti, Tom Nickles ...
    Collections series Philosophy and Religion (R0)
    The book answers long-standing questions on scientific modeling and inference across multiple perspectives and disciplines, including logic, mathematics, physics and medicine. The different chapters cover a variety of issues, such as the role models play in scientific practice; the way science shapes our concept of models; ways of modeling the pursuit of scientific knowledge; the relationship ... En savoir plus

    $115.99 CAD