This volume argues that concepts from the theory of computation might provide novel paths towards a solution to the problem of quantum gravity. By combining elements of physics with computer science and mathematics, the volume proposes to transform...Loe edasi...
Sari: AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 25-Nov-2025, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781003530589)
I Wish Theyd Taught Me That: Overlooked and Omitted Topics in Mathematics concerns the topics which every undergraduate mathematics student should know but has probably never encountered....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 philosophea mathematician, scientist, and philosopherwithin the shifting as...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...
Developed from a course on the history of mathematics, the book is aimed at school teachers of mathematics who need to learn more about mathematics than its history, and in a way they can communicate to middle and high school students. The author ho...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Apr-2025, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781003470915)
A Mathematical Tour introduces readers to a selection of mathematical topics chosen for their centrality, importance, historical significance, and intrinsic appeal and beauty....Loe edasi...
John Maynard Keynes is best known for his contributions to economics, yet he spent nearly two decades exploring the concept of probability. His extensive work culminated in the Treatise on Probability (1921), where he developed a unique notion of pr...Loe edasi...
Sari: AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 24-Feb-2025, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781003280668)
The Meditations in this book are the product of thousands of years of mathematical discourse. As you read through the book and work through the various exercises, you will discover new mechanisms that allow you to contemplate and understand some com...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...
Sari: AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Dec-2024, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781003455592)
This book describes the historical development of the big ideas in mathematics in an accessible and intuitive manner. In delivering this birds-eye view of the history of mathematics, the author uses engaging diagrams and images to communicate compl...Loe edasi...
Originally published in 1927 this book presents the main features of Newtons life and his chief contributions to scientific knowledge. It gives the non-scientist, as well as the specialist, an insight into the life, personality and achievements of o...Loe edasi...
This book guides readers through the history and development of AI, from its early mathematical beginnings through to the exciting possibilities of its potential future applications....Loe edasi...
This amazing book aims to shatter the barrier between students and mathematics. By encouraging students to look at mathematics from a different perspective, build a bridge between their surroundings and mathematics and, at the same time, enrich them...Loe edasi...
This volume considers the exchange between the Neo-Kantian tradition in German philosophy and the sciences from the last third of the nineteenth century to the Great war and partly beyond....Loe edasi...
Sari: AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 21-Jun-2024, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781032709659)
Research in maths is much more than solving puzzles, but most people will agree that solving puzzles is not just fun: it helps focus the mind and increases ones armory of techniques for doing maths. This book makes this connection explicit by isola...Loe edasi...
The Unconscious as Space explores the experience of being and the practice of psychoanalysis by thinking of the unconscious in mathematical terms....Loe edasi...
Sari: AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Apr-2024, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781003466000)
This book will provide a fascinating read for anyone interested in number theory, infinity, math art, and/or generative art, and could be used a valuable supplement to any course on these topics. Along the way the author will demonstrate how infinit...Loe edasi...
This book casts a new light on Bertrands Paradox, giving original analyses of the paradox, its possible solutions, the source of the paradox, the philosophical errors we make in attempting to solve it and what the paradox proves for the philosophy o...Loe edasi...
Sari: AK Peters/CRC Recreational Mathematics Series
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Dec-2023, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781003268024)
This book explores a wide variety of popular mathematical games, including their historical beginnings and the mathematical theories that underpin them. Its academic level is suitable for high school students and higher, but people of any age or lev...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Dec-2023, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781003282198)
This book focuses on the lives and writings of some of historys most influential mathematicians, and the impact that their mystical beliefs had on their lives and on their mathematical work....Loe edasi...
