An Essay on the Foundations of Geometry was first published in 1897 and marks Bertrand Russells first foray into analytic philosophy, a movement in which Russell is one of the founding members and figurehead. This Routledge Classics edit...Loe edasi...
First published in 1919, Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy shows Russell drawing on his formidable knowledge of philosophy and mathematics to write a brilliant introduction to the subject. This Routledge Classics edition includ...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Oct-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press Inc, ISBN-13: 9780197751213)
Popular science and media are awash in sweeping claims concerning how some characteristic human behavior, feeling, or psychological disposition exists because it aided our evolutionary ancestors in survival and reproduction. These claims often arise...Loe edasi...
This book offers a contribution to our understanding of Nicholas of Cusa’s theory of geometry. It is based not only on his—generally more famous—philosophical texts (e.g., De docta ignorantia, I...Loe edasi...
Sari: British Society for the History of Philosophy:New Texts in the History of Philosophy
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780192865885)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) is famous in mathematics predominantly for his invention of the differential calculus, and in philosophy for his metaphysics of monads and system of pre-established harmony. But at the heart of his thinking in bo...Loe edasi...
Brian G. Brian G. Henning, Joseph Joseph Petek, Robert J. Robert J. Valenza
Sari: The Edinburgh Critical Edition of the Complete Works of Alfred North Whitehead
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Edinburgh University Press, ISBN-13: 9781399531207)
A chronological and critically edited collection of Whiteheads published and unpublished essays and articles written between 1886 and 1916....Loe edasi...
The book discusses the nine popular propositions in mathematics: “the consistency theorem” from logic; “isosceles triangle theorem” and “Pythagorean theorem” from geometry; “ordered pair proposition” and “mathematical induction principle” from Zer...Loe edasi...
Years ago, James V. Schall wrote Another Sort of Learning, a book listing those things you should read but probably were never required to read. It is not a curriculum, except maybe one for life. This book you have in your hands is something of a ma...Loe edasi...
Discover the story of mathematics like never before with The Mathematicians’ Library, an extraordinary collection that chronicles the evolution of mathematical thought and its profound impact on the world. This expertly curated anthology br...Loe edasi...
Why have there been so few women mathematicians? This book does not seek an answer in absence but in the forces, ruptures, and intensities that shape the becoming of a femme philosophe—a mathematician, scientist, and philosopher—within the...Loe edasi...
An Oxford mathematician, playwright, and musician reveals how creative people can harness the profound and productive relationship between mathematics and the arts When Shakespeare has the Three Witches cast Macbeth’s lot, he uses...Loe edasi...
Number Systems: A Path into Rigorous Mathematics aims to introduce number systems to an undergraduate audience in a way that emphasises the importance of rigour, and with a focus on providing detailed but accessible explanations of t...Loe edasi...
Number Systems: A Path into Rigorous Mathematics aims to introduce number systems to an undergraduate audience in a way that emphasises the importance of rigour, and with a focus on providing detailed but accessible explanations of theorems and thei...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 04-Sep-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783031984266)
This books offers a novel account of the nature of numbers firmly grounded in results from numerical cognition and the philosophy of mathematics....Loe edasi...
First published in 1961, Inductive Probability is a dialectical analysis of probability as it occurs in inductions. The book elucidates on the various forms of inductive, the criteria for their validity, and the consequent probabilities....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 28-Aug-2025, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198945543)
What does it mean for a conclusion to follow logically from other sentences? Logical consequence is at the basis of any rational reasoning. Textbooks generally give a precise and formal account of logical consequence, but rarely provide a justificati...Loe edasi...
