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  • Abstraction and Representation

    Essays on the Cultural Evolution of Thinking

    de Peter Damerow ...
    Series 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 ... Leer más

    $143.99 USD

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  • Is God a Mathematician?

    de 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? ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD

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    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • A Mathematician's Lament

    How School Cheats Us Out of Our Most Fascinating and Imaginative Art Form

    de Paul Lockhart ...
    “One of the best critiques of current K-12 mathematics education I have ever seen, written by a first-class research mathematician who elected to devote his teaching career to K-12 education.” —Keith Devlin, NPR’s “Math Guy”A brilliant research mathematician reveals math to be a creative art form on par with painting, poetry, and sculpture, and rejects the standard anxiety-producing teaching ... Leer más

    $13.99 USD

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

    Disponible también en: Audiolibro

  • A Certain Ambiguity

    A Mathematical Novel (New in Paper)

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $15.09 USD

  • Uncertainty

    The Soul of Modeling, Probability & Statistics

    de William Briggs ...
    Series 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 ... Leer más

    $98.99 USD

  • On the Teaching of Linear Algebra

    Edición de J.-L. Dorier ...
    Series 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, ... Leer más

    $215.99 USD

  • Causality

    Philosophical Theory meets Scientific Practice

    de 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 ... Leer más

    $52.99 USD

  • Introducing Bertrand Russell

    A Graphic Guide

    de Dave Robinson, Judy Groves ...
    Series 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. ... Leer más

    $5.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Ultimate Explanations of the Universe

    de Michael Heller ...
    Series 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 ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • From Logic to Practice

    Italian Studies in the Philosophy of Mathematics

    Edición de Gabriele Lolli, Marco Panza, Giorgio Venturi ...
    Series 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 ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD

  • Bolzano's Logical System

    de Ettore Casari ...
    This book is focused on the first three parts of Bolzano's Theory of Sciene and introduces a more systematic reconsideration of Bolzano's logial thought. In undertaking this task, the book is intended as an exploration, not so much of the more specifically discursive aspects of Bolzano's logial thought - already amply studied - as muh as on identifying the singularly coherent and systematic nature ... Leer más

    $112.49 USD

  • Shifts in the Field of Mathematics Education

    Stephen Lerman and the turn to the social

    Edición de Peter Gates, Robyn Jorgensen (Zevenbergen) ...
    Series series Education (R0)
    Professor Stephen Lerman has been a leader in the field of mathematics education for thirty years. His work is extensive, making many significant contributions to a number of key areas of research. Stephen retired from South Bank University in 2012, where he had worked for over 20 years, though he continues to work at Loughborough University. In this book several of his long standing colleagues ... Leer más

    $49.99 USD