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Frank Ramsey: A Sheer Excess of PowersThe full story of Frank Ramsey's extraordinary life. When he died in 1930 aged 26, Frank Ramsey had already invented one branch of mathematics and two branches of economics, laying the foundations for decision theory and game theory. Keynes deferred to him; he was...
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Laws of Form: A Fiftieth AnniversaryLaws of Form is a seminal work in foundations of logic, mathematics and philosophy published by G Spencer-Brown in 1969. The book provides a new point of view on form and the role of distinction, markedness and the absence of distinction (the unmarked state)...
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How to Become a Really Good Pain in the Ass: A Critical Thinker's Guide to Asking the Right Questions10-YEAR ANNIVERSARY EDITION In this classic guide to critical thinking, author Christopher DiCarlo provides you with the tools you need to question beliefs and assumptions held by those who claim to know what they're talking about. Featuring a new introduction by the author, this...
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99 Variations on a ProofAn exploration of mathematical style through 99 different proofs of the same theorem This book offers a multifaceted perspective on mathematics by demonstrating 99 different proofs of the same theorem. Each chapter solves an otherwise unremarkable equation in distinct historical, formal, and imaginative styles...
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Quantum EntanglementAn exploration of quantum entanglement and the ways in which it contradicts our everyday assumptions about the ultimate nature of reality.Quantum physics is notable for its brazen defiance of common sense. (Think of Schr dinger's Cat, famously both dead and alive.) An especially rigorous...
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Is God a Mathematician?Bestselling author and astrophysicist Mario Livio examines the lives and theories of history's greatest mathematicians to ask how--if mathematics is an abstract construction of the human mind--it can so perfectly explain the physical world.Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner once wondered about "the unreasonable effectiveness of...
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The Annotated Gödel: A Reader's Guide to his Classic Paper on Logic and IncompletenessThe Annotated Gödel offers a guided tour of Kurt Gödel's 1931 article on incompleteness, which demonstrated unexpected limits to the power of many logical systems. Today we call these results Gödel's First and Second Incompleteness Theorems. The book includes the complete article in a...
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Mathematical Logic and ComputationAuthor: Jeremy AvigadPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 11/24/2022Pages: 526Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 2.47lbsSize: 10.00h x 7.00w x 1.13dISBN: 9781108478755This title is not returnable
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Logic Puzzles & Brain Games for Adults: 500 Easy to Hard Puzzles & 12 Puzzle Types (Sudoku, Fillomino, Battleships, Calcudoku, Binary Puzzle, SlitherlThis Logic Puzzles book is packed with the following features: - 500 Easy to Hard Puzzles & 12 Puzzle Types: - 44 Sudoku Puzzles- 40 Fillomino Puzzles- 40 Battleships Puzzles- 40 Calcudoku Puzzles- 44 Binary Puzzles- 44 Slitherlink Puzzles- 44 Sudoku X Puzzles- 40...
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A Lambda Calculus SatelliteIn 1936 the notion of intuitive computability was operationalized in two different ways: via Turing machines and via lambda-calculus. The difference consisted in manipulating beads (bits) for the former approach versus manipulating trees (rewriting lambda-terms) for the latter. Both proposals turned out to formalize...
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Naming and NecessityAuthor: Saul A. KripkePublisher: Wiley-BlackwellPublished: 03/01/2003Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.55lbsSize: 8.40h x 5.40w x 0.60dISBN: 9780631128014About the AuthorSaul Kripke is a Distinguished Professor in the Philosophy Department at the Graduate Center, CUNY.
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Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt GödelProbing the life and work of Kurt Gödel, Incompleteness indelibly portrays the tortured genius whose vision rocked the stability of mathematical reasoning--and brought him to the edge of madness.Author: Rebecca GoldsteinPublisher: W. W. Norton & CompanyPublished: 02/17/2006Pages: 224Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.57lbsSize: 8.10h x 5.42w...
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My Best Mathematical and Logic PuzzlesOver a period of 25 years as author of the Mathematical Games column for Scientific American, Martin Gardner devoted a column every six months or so to short math problems or puzzles. He was especially careful to present new and unfamiliar puzzles that had...
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Introduction to Logic: And to the Methodology of Deductive SciencesFirst published in Polish in 1936, this classic work was originally written as a popular scientific book -- one that would present to the educated lay reader a clear picture of certain powerful trends of thought in modern logic. According to the author, these...
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This Idea Must Die: Scientific Theories That Are Blocking ProgressThe bestselling editor of This Explains Everything brings together 175 of the world's most brilliant minds to tackle Edge.org's 2014 question: What scientific idea has become a relic blocking human progress?Each year, John Brockman, publisher of Edge.org--"The world's smartest website" (The Guardian)--challenges some of...
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius"Great philosophical biographies can be counted on one hand. Monk's life of Wittgenstein is such a one."--The Christian Science Monitor.Author: Ray MonkPublisher: Penguin BooksPublished: 11/01/1991Pages: 704Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.75lbsSize: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.60dISBN: 9780140159950Audience: Young AdultReview Citation(s): Publishers Weekly 10/18/1991About the AuthorRay Monk...
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The Art of Logical Thinking: Inductive, Deductive and Hypothetical Reasoning and the Use of Syllogisms and FallaciesWilliam Walker Atkinson, an attorney by trade, explains different kinds of logic and reasoning - deductive, inductive and hypothetical.The author begins by describing how the mind forms ideas and concepts, and then subjects these to the mental processes of higher reasoning. The memory stores...
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Category Theory in Context"The book is extremely pleasant to read, with masterfully crafted exercises and examples that create a beautiful and unique thread of presentation leading the reader safely into the wonderfully rich, expressive, and powerful theory of categories." -- The Math Association Category theory has provided...
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Analogy after Aquinas: Logical Problems, Thomistic AnswersSince the first decade of the 14th Century, Thomas Aquinas's disciples have struggled to explain and defend his doctrine of analogy. Analogy after Aquinas: Logical Problems, Thomistic Answers relates a history of prominent Medieval and Renaissance Thomists' efforts to solve three distinct but interrelated...
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Logic: The Ancient Art of ReasonHow do you tell what's right from what's wrong? Can you always? What's the difference between deduction, induction, and abduction? What are the best techniques for making an argument logically sound? In this fascinating little book, the smallest on its subject ever produced, philosopher...
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