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CD-ROM consists of four directories: parametric plots, fractals, etc; nonlinear differential equations; fuzzy logics; and graphics files.
Author : H. M. Hubey
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 550 pages
File Size : 23,28 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9789810230814
CD-ROM consists of four directories: parametric plots, fractals, etc; nonlinear differential equations; fuzzy logics; and graphics files.
Author : John Stillwell
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 22,27 MB
Release : 2010-07-13
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1439865507
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 h
Author : Shaughan Lavine
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 28,15 MB
Release : 1998-01-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674039998
How can the infinite, a subject so remote from our finite experience, be an everyday tool for the working mathematician? Blending history, philosophy, mathematics, and logic, Shaughan Lavine answers this question with exceptional clarity. Making use of the mathematical work of Jan Mycielski, he demonstrates that knowledge of the infinite is possible, even according to strict standards that require some intuitive basis for knowledge.
Author : Ian Stewart
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 13,12 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0198755236
Ian Stewart considers the concept of infinity and the profound role it plays in mathematics, logic, physics, cosmology, and philosophy. He shows that working with infinity is not just an abstract, intellectual exercise, and analyses its important practical everyday applications.
Author : James Haglund
Publisher : American Mathematical Soc.
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 33,12 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0821844113
This work contains detailed descriptions of developments in the combinatorics of the space of diagonal harmonics, a topic at the forefront of current research in algebraic combinatorics. These developments have led in turn to some surprising discoveries in the combinatorics of Macdonald polynomials.
Author : Anthony C. Patton
Publisher : Algora Publishing
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 32,80 MB
Release : 2018-07-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1628943416
Author : Anthony Gardiner
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,34 MB
Release : 2002-01-01
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780486425382
Conceived by the author as an introduction to "why the calculus works," this volume offers a 4-part treatment: an overview; a detailed examination of the infinite processes arising in the realm of numbers; an exploration of the extent to which familiar geometric notions depend on infinite processes; and the evolution of the concept of functions. 1982 edition.
Author : Amir D. Aczel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 35,24 MB
Release : 2001-08-28
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0743422996
A compelling narrative that blends the story of infinity with the tragic tale of a tormented and brilliant mathematician.
Author : Joel David Hamkins
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 40,95 MB
Release : 2021-03-09
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0262542234
An introduction to the philosophy of mathematics grounded in mathematics and motivated by mathematical inquiry and practice. In this book, Joel David Hamkins offers an introduction to the philosophy of mathematics that is grounded in mathematics and motivated by mathematical inquiry and practice. He treats philosophical issues as they arise organically in mathematics, discussing such topics as platonism, realism, logicism, structuralism, formalism, infinity, and intuitionism in mathematical contexts. He organizes the book by mathematical themes--numbers, rigor, geometry, proof, computability, incompleteness, and set theory--that give rise again and again to philosophical considerations.
Author : Loren Graham
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,11 MB
Release : 2009-03-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0674032934
In 1913, Russian imperial marines stormed an Orthodox monastery at Mt. Athos, Greece, to haul off monks engaged in a dangerously heretical practice known as Name Worshipping. Exiled to remote Russian outposts, the monks and their mystical movement went underground. Ultimately, they came across Russian intellectuals who embraced Name Worshipping—and who would achieve one of the biggest mathematical breakthroughs of the twentieth century, going beyond recent French achievements. Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor take us on an exciting mathematical mystery tour as they unravel a bizarre tale of political struggles, psychological crises, sexual complexities, and ethical dilemmas. At the core of this book is the contest between French and Russian mathematicians who sought new answers to one of the oldest puzzles in math: the nature of infinity. The French school chased rationalist solutions. The Russian mathematicians, notably Dmitri Egorov and Nikolai Luzin—who founded the famous Moscow School of Mathematics—were inspired by mystical insights attained during Name Worshipping. Their religious practice appears to have opened to them visions into the infinite—and led to the founding of descriptive set theory. The men and women of the leading French and Russian mathematical schools are central characters in this absorbing tale that could not be told until now. Naming Infinity is a poignant human interest story that raises provocative questions about science and religion, intuition and creativity.