Philosophy of mathematics

This book offers an engaging and comprehensive introduction to scientific theories and the evolution of science and mathematics through the centuries.

An entertaining and informative anthology of popular math writing from the Renaissance to cyberspaceDespite what we may sometimes imagine, popular mathematics writing didn't begin with Martin Gardner.

In this third installment of his classic 'Foundations' trilogy, Michel Serres takes on the history of geometry and mathematics.

Leading thinkers in mathematics, philosophy and education offer new insights into the fundamental question: what is a mathematical concept?

Originally published in 1937.

The Quantum of Explanation advances a bold new theory of how explanation ought to be understood in philosophical and cosmological inquiries.

The past few decades have seen an explosion of research on causal reasoning in philosophy, computer science, and statistics, as well as descriptive work in psychology.

This book follows the development of classical mathematics and the relation between work done in the Arab and Islamic worlds and that undertaken by the likes of Descartes and Fermat.

In A Time of Novelty, Samuel Wright re-envisions the relationship between philosophy and history in premodern India.

This volume of Bertrand Russell's Collected Papers finds Russell focused on writing Principia Mathematica during 1905-08.

Gain some insight into the game of life.

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

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

This monograph presents an interpretive essay on the foundations of Leibniz's calculus, accompanied by key texts in English translation.

Originally published in 1934.

Most philosophers of mathematics treat it as isolated, timeless, ahistorical, inhuman.

Essays by leading scholars on Isaac Newton and his philosophical interlocutors and critics, discussing a wide range of topics.

The hazards of feeling lucky in gamblingWhy do so many gamblers risk it all when they know the odds of winning are against them?

Modern-day units of measure, including the foot and the meter, are shown to be inherently encoded in the Great Pyramid, Khufu, of Giza.

Uncertainty is everywhere.

Ahora que la filosofía se desconoce y se denigra, importa muchísimo derribar fronteras estúpidas tras las que parezca que se parapeta un gremio deespecialistas.

Kingsley Amis described Paul Johnson's Intellectuals as a valuable and entertaining Rogues' Gallery of Adventures of the Mind.

Alone in a cube that's glowing in the darkness, X is content within its little universe of infinite thought.

Mathematics often gets a bad press.

This series of books is meant to present the fundamentals of reasoning well in a clear manner accessible to both scholars and students.

This new ebook from the author of 'The Music of the Primes' combines a personal insight into the mind of a working mathematician with the story of one of the biggest adventures in mathematics: the search for symmetry.

Originally published in 1916.

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'Another terrific book by Rob Eastaway' SIMON SINGH'A delightfully accessible guide to how to play with numbers' HANNAH FRYHow many cats are there in the world?

Why is the number seven lucky--even holy--in almost every culture?

'I have a truly marvellous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain.

'Brilliant and fascinating.

We live an information-soaked existence - information pours into our lives through television, radio, books, and of course, the Internet.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Kurt Godel first published his celebrated theorem, showing that no axiomatization can determine the whole truth and nothing but the truth concerning arithmetic, nearly a century ago.

Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring Kurt Godel first published his celebrated theorem, showing that no axiomatization can determine the whole truth and nothing but the truth concerning arithmetic, nearly a century ago.

We live an information-soaked existence - information pours into our lives through television, radio, books, and of course, the Internet.

A guide to the complex subject of ethics explained in clear and entertaining language.

An intimate portrait of an everyday genius.

The quirky offspring of 'QI' and 'Freakonomics', 'Geekspeak' melds ingenious statistical analysis with edifying trivia to explain away some curious facts of life.

From the author of The Music of the Primes and Finding Moonshine comes a short, lively book on five mathematical problems that just refuse be solved - and on how many everyday problems can be solved by maths.

The Logic Of Names : An Introduction To Boole's Laws Of Thought.

The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy - Isaac Newton - Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy ('Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica'), is a work in three books by Sir Isaac Newton, first published on the 5th July 1687.

As Albert Einstein lay on his death bed he asked for his glasses, his writingimplements and his latest equations.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a man of extraordinary intellectual creativity who lived an exceptionally rich and varied intellectual life in troubled times.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716) was a man of extraordinary intellectual creativity who lived an exceptionally rich and varied intellectual life in troubled times.

This book is a collection of essays that offer original logical and philosophical investigations into the century-long endeavor to understand paradoxes.

This book provides a philosophy of mathematics that resonates with critical mathematics education.