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The Puzzle Instinctby Marcel Danesi
Indiana University Press 2002; US$ 15.95One of the most famous anagrams of all time was constructed in the Middle Ages. The unknown author contrived it as a Latin dialogue between Pilate and Jesus. Jesus' answer to Pilate's question "What is truth" is phrased as an ingenious anagram of the letters of that very question: Pilate: Quid est veritas? ("What is truth?") Jesus: Est virqui adest. ("It is the man before you.") The origin of anagrams is shrouded in mystery. One thing is clear, however -- in the ancient world, they were thought to contain hidden messages from the gods. Legend has it that even Alexander the Great (356--323 b.c.) believed in their... more...
Handbook Of Graph Grammars And Computing By Graph Transformation, Volume 1by G Rozenberg
World Scientific 1997; US$ 133.90Graph grammars originated in the late 60s, motivated by considerations about pattern recognition and compiler construction. Since then the list of areas which have interacted with the development of graph grammars has grown quite impressively. Besides the aforementioned areas it includes software specification and development, VLSI layout schemes, database design, modeling of concurrent systems, massively parallel computer architectures, logic programming, computer animation, developmental biology, music composition, visual languages, and many others. The area of graph grammars and graph transformations generalizes formal language theory based on strings and the theory of term rewriting based on trees. As a matter of fact within the area of... more...
A Modern Perspective on Type Theoryby Fairouz D. Kamareddine; TWAN LAAN; ROB NEDERPELT
Springer 2004; US$ 219.00Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Frege gave us the abstraction principles and the general notion of functions. Self-application of functions was at the heart of Russell's paradox. This led Russell to introduce type theory in order to avoid the paradox. Since, the twentieth century has seen an amazing number of theories concerned with types and functions and many applications. Progress in computer science also meant more and more emphasis on the use of logic, types and functions to study the syntax, semantics, design and implementation of programming languages and theorem provers, and the correctness of proofs and programs. The authors of this book have themselves been leading the way by providing various extensions of type theory... more...
The Description Logic Handbookby Franz Baader; Diego Calvanese; Deborah McGuinness; Daniele Nardi; Peter Patel-Schneider
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 141.00The Description Logic Handbook covers all aspects of the research in the field of knowledge representation. Written by some of the most prominent researchers in the field, and covering the basic technical material and implementational aspects, it is both a unique reference and a self-study guide. more...
Paraconsistencyby Walter Carnielli; Marcelo Esteban Coniglio; Itala Maria Loffredo D'Ottaviano
Marcel Dekker Inc 2002; US$ 229.95This title represents an integrated discussion of all major topics in the area of paraconsistent logic, highlighting philosophical and historical aspects, major developments and real-world applications. more...
Lectures in Logic and Set Theory: Volume 2, Set Theoryby George Tourlakis; B. Bollobas; W. Fulton; A. Katok; F. Kirwan; P. Sarnak
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 56.00Provides the reader with a solid foundation in set theory, while the inclusion of topics such as absoluteness, relative consistency results, two expositions of Godel's constructible universe, numerous ways of viewing recursion, and a chapter on Cohen forcing, will usher the advanced reader to the doorstep of the research literature. more...
Lectures in Logic and Set Theory: Volume 1, Mathematical Logicby George Tourlakis; B. Bollobas; W. Fulton; A. Katok; F. Kirwan; P. Sarnak
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 32.00Includes formal proof techniques, a section on applications of compactness (including nonstandard analysis), a generous dose of computability and its relation to the incompleteness phenomenon, and the first presentation of a complete proof of Godel's 2nd incompleteness since Hilbert and Bernay's Grundlagen theorem. more...
Continuous Lattices and Domainsby G. Gierz; K. H. Hofmann; K. Keimel; J. D. Lawson; M. Mislove; D. S. Scott; G.-C. Rota
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 195.00Information content and programming semantics are just two of the applications of the mathematical concepts of order, continuity and domains. This authoritative and comprehensive account of the subject will be an essential handbook for all those working in the area. more...
Applied Logistic Regressionby David W. Hosmer; Stanley Lemeshow
John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2004; US$ 157.00From the reviews of the First Edition. "An interesting, useful, and well-written book on logistic regression models . . . Hosmer and Lemeshow have used very little mathematics, have presented difficult concepts heuristically and through illustrative examples, and have included references." — Choice "Well written, clearly organized, and comprehensive . . . the authors carefully walk the reader through the estimation of interpretation of coefficients from a wide variety of logistic regression models . . . their careful explication of the quantitative re-expression of coefficients from these various models is excellent." — Contemporary Sociology "An extremely well-written book that will certainly prove an invaluable acquisition to... more...
Logicby Graham Priest
Oxford University Press 2000; US$ 8.95Logic is often perceived as having little to do with the rest of philosophy, and even less to do with real life. In this introduction, Graham Priest explores the philosophical roots of the subject, explaining how modern formal logic addresses many issues. more...