Philosophy of mathematics

This book is an original-the first-ever treatment of the mathematics of Luck.

This volume presents interviews that have been conducted from the 1980s to the present with important scholars of social choice and welfare theory.

This textbook provides a self-contained introduction to decidability of first-order theories and their combination.

This textbook offers a detailed introduction to the methodology and applications of sequent calculi in propositional logic.

This book considers the manifold possible approaches, past and present, to our understanding of the natural numbers.

This handbook features essays written by both literary scholars and mathematicians that examine multiple facets of the connections between literature and mathematics.

This volume is a collection of essays in honour of Professor Mohammad Ardeshir.

The life and soul of any science are its problems.

This monograph uses the concept and category of "e;event"e; in the study of mathematics as it emerges from an interaction between levels of cognition, from the bodily experiences to symbolism.

I first had a quick look, then I started reading it.

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Group Decision and Negotiation, GDN 2020, which was planned to be held in Toronto, ON, Canada, during June 7-11, 2020.

This monograph examines the private annotations that Ludwig Wittgenstein made to his copy of G.

This book gathers the most essential results, including recent ones, on linear-quadratic optimal control problems, which represent an important aspect of stochastic control.

The chapters in this timely volume aim to answer the growing interest in Arthur Schopenhauer's logic, mathematics, and philosophy of language by comprehensively exploring his work on mathematical evidence, logic diagrams, and problems of semantics.

The contributions gathered here demonstrate how categorical ontology can provide a basis for linking three important basic sciences: mathematics, physics, and philosophy.

This volume contains ten papers that have been collected by the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/Societe canadienne d'histoire et de philosophie des mathematiques.

This monograph explores the logical systems of early logicians in the Arabic tradition from a theoretical perspective, providing a complete panorama of early Arabic logic and centering it within an expansive historical context.

This volume aims to provide the elements for a systematic exploration of certain fundamental notions of Peirce and Husserl in respect with foundations of science by means of drawing a parallelism between their works.

This edited collection covers Friedrich Waismann's most influential contributions to twentieth-century philosophy of language: his concepts of open texture and language strata, his early criticism of verificationism and the analytic-synthetic distinction, as well as their significance for experimental and legal philosophy.

This book explores and articulates the concepts of the continuous and the infinitesimal from two points of view: the philosophical and the mathematical.

This edited work presents contemporary mathematical practice in the foundational mathematical theories, in particular set theory and the univalent foundations.

This volume offers a broad, philosophical discussion on mechanical explanations.

This book explores and articulates the concepts of the continuous and the infinitesimal from two points of view: the philosophical and the mathematical.

This volume contains ten papers that have been collected by the Canadian Society for History and Philosophy of Mathematics/Societe canadienne d'histoire et de philosophie des mathematiques.

This book considers the manifold possible approaches, past and present, to our understanding of the natural numbers.

There is a wonderfully weird but real world out there, and we are a part of it.

Uncover the language of our universe - numbers - in this wide-ranging whistle-stop tour of the history and majesty of mathematics.

From early humans carving notches in bones to the discovery of quantum mechanics and chaos theory - mathematics has certainly come a long way.

Our finances, politics, media, opportunities, information, shopping and knowledge production are mediated through algorithms and their statistical approaches to knowledge; increasingly, these methods form the organizational backbone of contemporary capitalism.

Everything you need to know about 100 key mathematical concepts condensed into easy-to-understand sound bites designed to stick in your memory and give you an instant grasp of the concept.

Resonance examines some building blocks of epistemology as a prelude to the careful analysis of the foundations of probability.

Uncertainty is everywhere.

A Mathematical Tour introduces readers to a selection of mathematical topics chosen for their centrality, importance, historical significance, and intrinsic appeal and beauty.

A mathematical sightseeing tour of the natural world from the author of THE MAGICAL MAZEWhy do many flowers have five or eight petals, but very few six or seven?

WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO COUNT?

This is a unique book that teaches mathematics and its history simultaneously.

The Art Instinct combines two of the most fascinating and contentious disciplines, art and evolutionary science, in a provocative new work that will revolutionize the way art itself is perceived.

This book focuses on the Frobenius theorem regarding a nonlinear simultaneous system.

Protagoras - Plato - Plato is a Classical Greek philosopher, mathematician, student of Socrates, writer of philosophical dialogues, and founder of the Academy in Athens, the first institution of higher learning in the Western world.

Why bother to praise mathematics when you claim, as Alain Badiou does, that philosophy is first and foremost a metaphysics of happiness, or else it s not worth an hour of trouble?

When a doctor tells you there's a one percent chance that an operation will result in your death, or a scientist claims that his theory is probably true, what exactly does that mean?