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Jan de Witt's Elementa Curvarum Linearum
Springer 2010; US$ 99.99Following on from the 2000 edition of Jan De Witt's "Elementa Curvarum Linearum, Liber Primus", this book provides the accompanying translation of the second volume of "Elementa Curvarum Linearum (Foundations of Curved Lines)". One of the first books to be published on Analytic Geometry, it was originally written in Latin by... more...
Kurt Gödel and the Foundations of Mathematics
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 84.00Commemorates the life, work and foundational views of Kurt Gödel by exploring the impact of his work and its future implications. more...
The Evolution of Principia Mathematica
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 127.00Previously unpublished archival material helps us reassess this famous, but seldom studied, classic that prompted modern logic and computers. more...
Mathematics, Ideas and the Physical Real
Continuum International Publishing 2011; US$ 23.95Albert Lautman (1908-1944) was a French philosopher of mathematics whose work played a crucial role in the history of contemporary French philosophy. His ideas have had an enormous influence on key contemporary thinkers including Gilles Deleuze and Alain Badiou, for whom he is a major touchstone in the development of their own engagements with mathematics.... more...
Grounding Concepts
OUP Oxford 2008; US$ 73.99Grounding Concepts tackles the issue of arithmetical knowledge, developing a new position which respects three intuitions which have appeared impossible to satisfy simultaneously: a priorism, mind-independence realism, and empiricism.Drawing on a wide range of philosophical influences, but avoiding unnecessary technicality, a view is developed whereby... more...
Perfect Figures
St. Martin's Press 2007; US$ 7.99An intoxicating trip through the history, the poetry, and the surprising secret meanings of numbers more...
Creative Minds, Charmed Lives
World Scientific Publishing Company 2010; US$ 101.00This book features interviews of 38 eminent mathematicians and mathematical scientists who were invited to participate in the programs of the Institute for Mathematical Sciences, National University of Singapore. Originally published in its newsletter "Imprints" from 2003 to 2009, these interviews give a fascinating and insightful glimpse... more...
Logic with a Probability Semantics
Lehigh University Press 2010; US$ 54.99The book extends the development of probability logic_a logic using probability, not verity (true, false) as the basic semantic notion. The basic connectives 'not,' 'and,' and 'or' are described in depth to include quantified formulas. Also discussed is the notion of the suppositional, and resolution of the paradox of confirmation. more...
The Great Philosophers: Turing
Orion 2011; US$ 9.96Alan Turing 1912 ? 1954 Alan Turing?s 1936 paper On Computable Numbers, introducing the Turing machine, was a landmark of twentieth-century thought. It settled a deep problem in the foundations of mathematics, and provided the principle of the post-war electronic computer. It also supplied a new approach to the philosophy of the mind. Influenced... more...









