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Philosophy of mathematics

Hardback. In Western Civilization mathematics and music have a long common history. This book journeys into recent work relating music and mathematics, covering historical aspects, influence of logic and mathematical thought in composition, perception and understanding of music and computational aspects. Editor(s): Assayag, Gerard; Feichtinger, Hans G.; Rodrigues, Jose Francisco. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AVA; PBB; PBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 570.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9783540437277
ISBN
9783540437277
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 133.80

Paperback. The proceedings of a biennial symposium on logic, theoretical computer science and the philosophy of mathematics are recorded in this volume. Emphasis is placed on proof theory, which although traditionally a discipline of mathematical logic, is also a central activity in computer science. Editor(s): Gottlob, G.; Leitsch, Alexander; Mundici, Daniele. Series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Num Pages: 365 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PBB; UYA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 279 x 216 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1160.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Number of pages
365
Condition
New
SKU
V9783540571841
ISBN
9783540571841
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 71.63

Paperback. Editor(s): Assayag, Gerard; Feichtinger, Hans G. Num Pages: 288 pages, biography. BIC Classification: AVA; PBB; PBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 474.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2002
Number of pages
288
Condition
New
SKU
V9783642078361
ISBN
9783642078361
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.90

Paperback. Editor(s): Remmert, Reinhold; Serre, Jean-Pierre. Series: Springer Collected Works in Mathematics. Num Pages: 569 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PBB; PBK; PBX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 29. Weight in Grams: 866.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Springer-Verlag Berlin and Heidelberg GmbH & Co. KG Germany
Edition
1979. Reprint 2015 of the 1979 edition
Number of pages
569
Condition
New
SKU
V9783662468722
ISBN
9783662468722
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 86.25

Hardback. Includes: Plenary Lectures; The Vassiliev Theory of Discriminants and Knots; Transparent Proofs and Limits to Approximation; Poisson Algebraic Groups and Representations of Quantum Groups at Roots of 1; Gauge Theory and Four-Manifold Topology; Spectral Theory and Geometry; and, Pattern Theory: A Unifying Perspective. Editor(s): Joseph, A.; Mignot, Fulbert; Murat, Francois; Prum, Bernard; Rentschler, Rudolf. Series: Progress in Mathematics. Num Pages: 612 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PBB; PBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 241 x 165 x 42. Weight in Grams: 1116.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Birkhauser Verlag AG Switzerland
Number of pages
612
Condition
New
SKU
V9783764327989
ISBN
9783764327989
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.50

Hardback. Includes: Martingales, Arbitrage, and Portfolio Choice; Mathematical Aspects of the Quantum Hall Effect; Analytic and Geometric Aspects of Variational Problems for Vector Valued Mappings; Harmonic Measures for Leafwise Elliptic Operators Along Foliations; and, Feynman Diagrams and Low-Dimensional Topology. Editor(s): Joseph, Anthony; Mignot, Fulbert; Murat, Francois; Prum, Bernard; Rentschler, Rudolf. Series: Progress in Mathematics. Num Pages: 544 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PBB; PBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 30. Weight in Grams: 934.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Birkhauser Verlag AG Switzerland
Number of pages
544
Condition
New
SKU
V9783764327996
ISBN
9783764327996
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 185.86

Hardback. Contains the round table reports of the first European Congress of Mathematics, a feature of this Congress devoted to furthering the contribution of mathematics to society and reporting on its interaction with the exact and social sciences. Editor(s): Joseph, Anthony; Mignot, Fulbert; Murat, Francois; Prum, Bernard; Rentschler, Rudolf. Series: Progress in Mathematics. Num Pages: 612 pages, 46 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PBB; PBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 33. Weight in Grams: 1028.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Birkhauser Verlag AG Switzerland
Number of pages
612
Condition
New
SKU
V9783764328009
ISBN
9783764328009
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 165.45

paperback. Contains the round table reports of the first European Congress of Mathematics, a new feature of this Congress devoted to furthering the contribution of mathematics to society and reporting on its interaction with the exact and social sciences. Editor(s): Joseph, Anthony; Mignot, Fulbert; Murat, Francois; Prum, Bernard; Rentschler, Rudolf. Series: Progress in Mathematics. Num Pages: 574 pages, 46 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PBB; PBW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 31. Weight in Grams: 846.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Birkhäuser Switzerland
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1994
Number of pages
574
Condition
New
SKU
V9783764351564
ISBN
9783764351564
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 170.25

Hardback. During his lifetime, Henri Poincare published three major philosophical books which achieved great success: "La science et l'hypothese" (1902), "La valeur de la science" (1905) and "Science et methode" (1908). This title gives some crucial informations about editorial practices of Poincare and about the posterity of his philosophic thinking. Editor(s): Rollet, Laurent. Series: Publications des Archives Henri Poincare / Publications of the Henri Poincare Archives / Science Autour de / Around 1900. Num Pages: 208 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PBB; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 514.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2002
Publisher
Birkhauser Verlag AG Switzerland
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9783764365394
ISBN
9783764365394
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.47

Paperback. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: PBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 280 x 210 x 6. Weight in Grams: 307.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Springer Verlag Italy
Number of pages
128
Condition
New
SKU
V9788847000575
ISBN
9788847000575
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 13.17

Paperback. Editor(s): Mancosu, Paolo; Jorgensen, Klaus Frovin; Pedersen, Stig Andur. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 300 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 17. Weight in Grams: 459.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2005
Number of pages
300
Condition
New
SKU
V9789048168378
ISBN
9789048168378
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 128.24

Paperback. Editor(s): Kerkhove, Bart van; Bendegem, Jean Paul van. Series: Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science. Num Pages: 258 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 240 x 160 x 14. Weight in Grams: 419.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
1st ed. Softcover of orig. ed. 2007
Number of pages
258
Condition
New
SKU
V9789048172603
ISBN
9789048172603
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.57

Paperback. Exploring the logic behind applied mathematics to the physical world, this volume illustrates how radical naturalism, nominalism and strict finitism can account for the applications of classical mathematics in current theories about natural phenomena. Series: Synthese Library. Num Pages: 272 pages, biography. BIC Classification: PBB; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 15. Weight in Grams: 405.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
SKU
V9789400736313
ISBN
9789400736313
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.76

paperback. Tracking the concept of 'work' in applied mechanics, from Carnot to new-generation polytechnical engineers such as Navier, Coriolis and Poncelet, this book extends to the principle of virtual works, pointing the way for future research and applications. Series: History of Mechanism and Machine Science. Num Pages: 262 pages, 40 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PBB; PBX; PHH; TGMD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 14. Weight in Grams: 415.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Edition
Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014
Number of pages
262
Condition
New
SKU
V9789401779180
ISBN
9789401779180
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 127.30

hardcover. Proposes an austere form of naturalism called 'Second Philosophy'. This book, using the persona of an idealized inquirer, constructs a second-philosophical line of thought which is practised in reflections on the ground of logical truth, the methodology, ontology and epistemology of mathematics, and general prospects for metaphysics naturalized. Num Pages: 462 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HPJ; PBB; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 240 x 164 x 32. Weight in Grams: 834.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Edition
New
Number of pages
462
Condition
New
SKU
V9780199273669
ISBN
9780199273669
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 64.78

Paperback. Includes articles written by A N Kolmogorov's students and colleagues and his personal accounts of shared experiences and lifelong mathematical friendships. This volume includes the following articles: ""On A N Kolmogorov"" by V I Arnol'd, ""In Memory of A N Kolmogorov"" by S M Nikol'skii, and ""A Few Words on A N Kolmogorov"" by P S Aleksandrov. Series: History of Mathematics. Num Pages: 230 pages, Illustrations, ports. BIC Classification: PBB; PBX; PDX. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Weight in Grams: 420.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
American Mathematical Society
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780821829189
ISBN
9780821829189
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 144.59

Hardback. Editor(s): Kamali, Mohammad Hashim; Bakar, Osman; Hashim, Rugayah; Batchelor, Daud Abdul-Fattah. Num Pages: 403 pages, 14 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRH; JFSR2; PBB; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 24. Weight in Grams: 765.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer Verlag, Singapore Singapore
Number of pages
403
Condition
New
SKU
V9789812877772
ISBN
9789812877772
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 229.24

Hardback. Offers a historical survey of important work on the foundations of mathematics. This title provides an introduction to Chaitins ideas, and includes software that enables users to interact with the authors proofs. Series: Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science. Num Pages: 133 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 3JJ; PBB; PBC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 167 x 19. Weight in Grams: 392.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
Springer Verlag, Singapore Singapore
Number of pages
133
Condition
New
SKU
V9789814021722
ISBN
9789814021722
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 207.47

Paperback. Num Pages: 308 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPL; PBB; PBX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 141 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 402.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Edition
1st ed. 2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781349486182
ISBN
9781349486182
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 182.53

hardcover. Inside Mathforum.org is an ethnographic study of how digital media transform the learning contexts of both teachers and students of mathematics. Series: Learning in Doing: Social, Cognitive and Computational Perspectives. Num Pages: 204 pages. BIC Classification: JHMC; JM; JNZ; PBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 228 x 152. .
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781107138858
ISBN
9781107138858
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 130.58

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