An Elegy for Mathematics
An Elegy for Mathematics

Author: Anne Valente

Publisher:

Published: 2017

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780988704404

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Fiction. This updated 2017 edition includes a new story. A man in search of a golden bead that is rumored to grant immortality. A would-be astronaut's manifesto. An Archivist who can't help but record all of life's statistics. In these thirteen small stories, Anne Valente takes us to worlds both fantastic and familiar, forgotten and foretold, and in tight, layered prose, she strives to unravel all the tangled questions we have about ourselves. From the field guides of anatomy to permutations on desire, these small stories are expansive and encyclopedic, a cataloging of love and loss, an attempt to find a formula for everything that courses through us.

What is a Mathematical Concept?
What is a Mathematical Concept?

Author: Elizabeth de Freitas

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2017-06-22

Total Pages: 301

ISBN-13: 1107134633

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Leading thinkers in mathematics, philosophy and education offer new insights into the fundamental question: what is a mathematical concept?

Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning
Metaphysics, Mathematics, and Meaning

Author: Nathan U. Salmon

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2005

Total Pages: 435

ISBN-13: 0199284717

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'Metaphysics, Mathematics and Meaning' brings together Nathan Salmon's influential papers on topics in the metaphysics of existence, non-existence and fiction. He includes a previously unpublished essay and helpful new introduction to orient the reader.

bird of winter
bird of winter

Author: Alice Hiller

Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Published: 2021-04-19

Total Pages: 87

ISBN-13: 1800345682

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'Hiller offers extraordinary resilience and moments of immense, liberatory tenderness. [...] This is a harrowing book, yes, but ultimately, with its invitation to “billow forth the wrecks we hold”, with its emphasis on resistance and joy, it is a staggeringly beautiful piece of life-affirming work.' Stephanie Sy-Quia, The Poetry Review

Mathematical Works Printed in the Americas, 1554–1700
Mathematical Works Printed in the Americas, 1554–1700

Author: Bruce Stanley Burdick

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2009-01-22

Total Pages: 388

ISBN-13: 0801888239

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"Burdick's exhaustive research has unearthed numerous examples of books not previously cataloged as mathematical. While it was thought that no mathematical writings in English were printed in the Americas before 1703, Burdick gives scholars one of their first chances to discover Jacob Taylor's 1697 Tenebrae, a treatise on solving triangles and other figures using basic trigonometry. He also goes beyond the English language to discuss works in Spanish and Latin, such as Alonso de la Vera Cruz's 1554 logic text, the Recognitio Summularum; a book on astrology by Enrico Martinez; books on the nature of comets by Carlos de Siguenza y Gongora and Eusebio Francisco Kino; and a 1676 almanac by Feliciana Ruiz, the first woman to produce a mathematical work in the Americas.".

Badiou's Being and Event and the Mathematics of Set Theory
Badiou's Being and Event and the Mathematics of Set Theory

Author: Burhanuddin Baki

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2014-11-20

Total Pages: 283

ISBN-13: 1472578716

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Alain Badiou's Being and Event continues to impact philosophical investigations into the question of Being. By exploring the central role set theory plays in this influential work, Burhanuddin Baki presents the first extended study of Badiou's use of mathematics in Being and Event. Adopting a clear, straightforward approach, Baki gathers together and explains the technical details of the relevant high-level mathematics in Being and Event. He examines Badiou's philosophical framework in close detail, showing exactly how it is 'conditioned' by the technical mathematics. Clarifying the relevant details of Badiou's mathematics, Baki looks at the four core topics Badiou employs from set theory: the formal axiomatic system of ZFC; cardinal and ordinal numbers; Kurt Gödel's concept of constructability; and Cohen's technique of forcing. Baki then rebuilds Badiou's philosophical meditations in relation to their conditioning by the mathematics, paying particular attention to Cohen's forcing, which informs Badiou's analysis of the event. Providing valuable insights into Badiou's philosophy of mathematics, Badiou's Being and Event and the Mathematics of Set Theory offers an excellent commentary and a new reading of Badiou's most complex and important work.