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The Logic of the Plausible and Some of its Applications
Rene Leclerq
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Paperback / so. Num Pages: black & white illustrations, bibliography. BIC Classification: PDA; WM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 148 x 5. Weight in Grams: 118.
So simple and imperfect as it may appear this book has made use of knowledge on invention and discovery accumu lated during a lifetime. Those persons who would be tempted to emphasize only its imperfections should read the correspondence exchanged between Cantor and Dedekind at the end of the nineteenth century; they would then realize how difficult it was, even for an outstanding man, the creator of the set theory, to propose impeccable results in a completely new field. The field I have chosen here is plausibility. I have proposed an intuitive, some would say a naive, presentation as I ... Read more
So simple and imperfect as it may appear this book has made use of knowledge on invention and discovery accumu lated during a lifetime. Those persons who would be tempted to emphasize only its imperfections should read the correspondence exchanged between Cantor and Dedekind at the end of the nineteenth century; they would then realize how difficult it was, even for an outstanding man, the creator of the set theory, to propose impeccable results in a completely new field. The field I have chosen here is plausibility. I have proposed an intuitive, some would say a naive, presentation as I ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Springer United States
Condition
New
Number of Pages
80
Place of Publication
New York, NY, United States
ISBN
9781468407440
SKU
V9781468407440
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99-15
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