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Beyond Reason: Eight Great Problems That Reveal the Limits of Science
By: Dewdney, A. K.
Published by: John Wiley & Sons, Inc
A mind-bending excursion to the limits of science and mathematics Are some scientific problems insoluble? In Beyond Reason, internationally acclaimed math and science author A. K. Dewdney answers this question by examining eight insurmountable mathematical and scientific roadblocks that have stumped thinkers across the centuries, from ancient mathematical conundrums such as "squaring the circle," first attempted by the Pythagoreans, to G?del's vexing theorem, from perpetual motion to the upredictable behavior of chaotic systems such as the weather. A. K. Dewdney, PhD (Ontario, Canada), was the author of Scientific American's "Computer Recreations" column for eight years. He has written several critically acclaimed popular math and science books, including A Mathematical Mystery Tour (0-471-40734-8); Yes, We Have No Neutrons (0-471-29586-8); and 200% of Nothing (0-471-14574-2).
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Price: $27.95
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British Logic in the Nineteenth Century
By: Gabbay, Dov M.; Woods, John
Published by: North Holland
The present volume of the Handbook of the History of Logic is designed to establish 19th century Britain as a substantial force in logic, developing new ideas, some of which would be overtaken by, and other that would anticipate, the century's later capitulation to the mathematization of logic. British Logic in the Nineteenth Century is indispensable reading and a definitive research resource for anyone with an interest in the history of logic.
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Calculating the Weather
By: Nebeker, Frederik
Published by: Academic Press (Elsevier Science & Technology Books)
Examines the various roles of computation throughout the history of meteorology, paying attention to the period from World War I to the 1960s. This title explains how forecasting the weather became a physics-based science. It studies the impact of the computer on meteorology, and provides an example of science transformed by the computer.
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Codici cifrati
By: Beckman, Bengt
Published by: Springer
Durante la II guerra mondiale hanno avuto luogo numerosi risultati di rilievo nel campo della crittografia militare. Uno dei meno conosciuti quello usato dal servizio di intelligence svedese, nei confronti del codice tedesco per le comunicazioni strategiche con i comandi dei paesi occupati nel nord Europa, le cui linee passavano per la Svezia. In tal modo, durante la fase pi critica della guerra la direzione politica e militare svedese era in grado di seguire i piani e le disposizioni dei Tedeschi, venendo a conoscenza dei pi arditi progetti per modificare la propria politica, tenendo la Svezia fuori dalla guerra. La violazione del codice tedesco narrata in dettaglio, per la prima volta, con elementi che gli permettono di essere unottima introduzione al campo della crittografia, oltre che un ritratto vitale e umano della societ del tempo: una disperata condizione bellica, l'intrigo politico e spionistico, il genio del matematico Arne Beurling, le difficolt e i trucchi del mestiere, e il lavoro sistematico e oscuro di una folla di decrittatori.
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Das Unendliche
By: Taschner, Rudolf J.
Published by: Springer
Philosophen und Theologen haben uber das Unendliche nachgedacht. Doch die wahre Wissenschaft vom Unendlichen ist die Mathematik.Rudolf Taschner gelingt es, diesen zentralen Begriff auch dem mathematischen Laien zu vermitteln. Auf anschauliche Weise beschreibt er, wie bereits Pythagoras, Archimedes und Euklid versucht haben, das Unendliche zu fassen. Er macht uns mit Newton und Leibniz bekannt, die entdeckten, dass das PhC$nomen von Bewegung und Wandel nur durch die Erforschung des Unendlichen verstC$ndlich wird. Mit Spannung kann der Leser den dramatischen Streit zwischen den unterschiedlichen Positionen von Cantor, Hilbert und Brouwer verfolgen - ein Streit, der nach den Erkenntnissen GC6dels unentschiedener ist denn je.
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Die Politik der großen Zahlen
By: Desrosières, Alain
Published by: Springer
Statistik (Staatenkunde"), Wahrscheinlichkeitsrechnung und die Philosophie der Wahrscheinlichkeit sind auch als siamesische Drillinge" bekannt. Das Buch analysiert den Werdegang der Statistik und zeigt Verbindungen zwischen der internalistischen Geschichte der Formalismen und Werkzeuge sowie der externalistisch orientierten Geschichte der Institutionen auf. Der Spannungsbogen erstreckt sich vom Vorabend der Franzsischen Revolution bis hin zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkriegs, wobei Frankreich, Deutschland, England und die USA ausfhrlich behandelt werden. Was haben Richter und Astronomen gemeinsam? Wer waren die politischen Arithmetiker"? Was ist ein Durchschnittsmensch"? Wie ndert sich im Laufe der Zeit das, was man Realismus" nennt? Kann man vom Teil auf das Ganze schlieen? Und wenn ja, warum? Welche Rolle spielt der Franziskanerorden? Wir begegnen Adolphe Quetelet, Karl Pearson, Egon Pearson, Francis Galton, Emile Durkheim und vielen anderen. Glcksspiele, Zufall, Bayesscher Ansatz, das St. Petersburger Paradoxon, der Choleravibrio, Erblichkeit, das Galtonsche Brett, Taxonomie, Wahlprognosen, Arbeitslosigkeit und Ungleichheit, die Entstehung der Arten, die Ordnung der Dinge und die Dinge des Lebens das sind die Themen des Buches.
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Die vergessene Revolution oder die Wiedergeburt des antiken Wissens
By: Russo, Lucio
Published by: Springer
Im 3. und 2. Jahrhundert v. Chr. ereignete sich in der griechischen Welt ein wissenschaftlicher und technologischer Urknall. Schon im vorhergegangenen klassischen Zeitalter war die griechische Kultur in den Knsten, der Literatur und der Philosophie zu groen Hhen aufgestiegen; erst die Zeit eines Archimedes und eines Euklid jedoch, brachte die Entstehung von Wissenschaften in unserem Sinne. Damals entstanden hoch entwickelte Technologien, auf die man sich erst im 18. Jahrhundert wieder besinnen sollte. Gleichzeitig mit dieser wissenschaftlichen Revolution fanden auch auf vielen anderen Gebieten, wie den Knsten und der Medizin grundlegende Vernderungen statt. Ein neues Bewusstsein entstand. Was waren die Grundpfeiler dieses kometenhaften Aufstiegs der Wissenschaften vor 2.300 Jahren? Warum ist selbst unter Wissenschaftlern, Altphilologen und Historikern so wenig darber bekannt? In welcher Beziehung stehen sie zu der Entwicklung der Wissenschaften seit dem 15. Jahrhundert, wie wir sie aus der Schule kennen Was fhrte zum Ende antiker Wissenschaften? Das sind die Fragen, die in diesem Buch gestellt werden. Ihre Antworten sind von entscheidender Bedeutung auch fr Herausforderungen, vor denen wir heute stehen.
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Experiment and Natural Philosophy in Seventeenth-century Tuscany
By: Boschiero, Luciano
Published by: Springer
The Accademia del Cimento (1657-1667) was the first institution in Europe purporting to use an experimental method in its scientific inquiries. This work counters historiographies that search for the origins of modern science within the experimental practices of Europe's first scientific institutions, such as the Cimento.
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Felix Berezin
By: Shifman, M (ed.)
Published by: World Scientific
Felix Berezin was an outstanding Soviet mathematician who in the 1960s and 70s was the driving force behind the emergence of the branch of mathematics now known as supermathematics. The integral over the anticommuting Grassmann variables that he introduced in the 1960s laid the foundation for the path integral formulation of quantum field theory with fermions, the heart of modern supersymmetric field theories and superstrings. The Berezin integral is named for him, as is the closely related construction of the Berezinian, which may be regarded as the superanalog of the determinant. This book features a masterfully written memoir by Berezins widow, Elena Karpel, who narrates a remarkable account of Berezins life and his struggle for survival under the totalitarian Soviet regime. Supplemented with recollections by his close friends and colleagues, Berezins accomplishments in mathematics, his novel ideas and breakthrough works, are reviewed in two articles written by Andrei Losev and Robert Minlos.
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Felix Hausdorff Gesammelte Werke
By: Bemelmans, Josef (ed.); Binder, Christa (ed.); Chatterji, Srishti D. (ed.); Hildebrandt, Stefan (ed.); Purkert, Walter (ed.)
Published by: Springer
Band 5 umfabt die Themenbereiche Astronomie, Optik und Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie. Er enthalt Hausdorffs Dissertation uber die Refraktion des Lichtes in der Atmosphare, zwei Folgearbeiten zum gleichen Thema sowie die Habilitationsschrift uber die Extinktion des Lichtes in der Atmosphare. Es folgt eine Arbeit uber geometrische Optik.
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