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Author: Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Published: 2017-05-04
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 0486821382
DOWNLOAD EBOOKConcise volume for general students by prominent philosopher and mathematician explains what math is and does, and how mathematicians do it. "Lucid and cogent ... should delight you." — The New York Times. 1911 edition.
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
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Published: 1911
Total Pages: 270
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Published: 1910
Total Pages: 688
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michael Epperson
Publisher: Fordham Univ Press
Published: 2004-07-15
Total Pages: 279
ISBN-13: 0823223191
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is an extended analysis of the intricate relationships between relativity theory, quantum mechanics and Alfred North Whitehead's cosmology. Michael Epperson illuminates the intersection of science and philosophy in Whitehead's work.
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher: CUP Archive
Published: 1953
Total Pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780521800617
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlfred North Whitehead's SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD, originally published in 1925, redefines the concept of modern science. Presaging by more than half a century most of today's cutting-edge thought on the cultural ramifications of science and technology, Whitehead demands that readers understand and celebrate the contemporary, historical, and cultural context of scientific discovery. Taking readers through the history of modern science, Whitehead shows how cultural history has affected science over the ages in relation to such major intellectual themes as romanticism, relativity, quantum theory, religion, and movements for social progress.
Author: W. W. Sawyer
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Published: 2012-04-19
Total Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 0486152774
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis lively, stimulating account of non-Euclidean geometry by a noted mathematician covers matrices, determinants, group theory, and many other related topics, with an emphasis on the subject's novel, striking aspects. 1955 edition.
Author: Bertrand Russell
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Published: 1920
Total Pages: 224
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Michele Friend
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2014-12-05
Total Pages: 294
ISBN-13: 1317493788
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhat is mathematics about? Does the subject-matter of mathematics exist independently of the mind or are they mental constructions? How do we know mathematics? Is mathematical knowledge logical knowledge? And how is mathematics applied to the material world? In this introduction to the philosophy of mathematics, Michele Friend examines these and other ontological and epistemological problems raised by the content and practice of mathematics. Aimed at a readership with limited proficiency in mathematics but with some experience of formal logic it seeks to strike a balance between conceptual accessibility and correct representation of the issues. Friend examines the standard theories of mathematics - Platonism, realism, logicism, formalism, constructivism and structuralism - as well as some less standard theories such as psychologism, fictionalism and Meinongian philosophy of mathematics. In each case Friend explains what characterises the position and where the divisions between them lie, including some of the arguments in favour and against each. This book also explores particular questions that occupy present-day philosophers and mathematicians such as the problem of infinity, mathematical intuition and the relationship, if any, between the philosophy of mathematics and the practice of mathematics. Taking in the canonical ideas of Aristotle, Kant, Frege and Whitehead and Russell as well as the challenging and innovative work of recent philosophers like Benacerraf, Hellman, Maddy and Shapiro, Friend provides a balanced and accessible introduction suitable for upper-level undergraduate courses and the non-specialist.
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
Publisher: Cosimo, Inc.
Published: 2007-01-01
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 1602062137
DOWNLOAD EBOOKHailed as "one of the most valuable books on the relation of philosophy and science," Alfred North Whitehead's The Concept of Nature, first published in 1920, was an important contribution to the development of philosophic naturalism. Examining the fundamental problems of substance, space, and time, Whitehead assesses the impact of Einstein's theories as well as the then-recent findings of modern physics on the concept of nature. For students and teachers of natural philosophy, this is essential reading. English mathematician and philosopher ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1861-1947) contributed significantly to 20th-century logic and metaphysics. With Bertrand Russell he cowrote the landmark Principia Mathematica, and also authored An Inquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge, The Function of Reason, and Process and Reality.
Author: Victor Lowe
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Published: 1985-03
Total Pages: 392
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis second volume completes the biography of the influential philosopher, following Whitehead's move first from Trinity College, Cambridge to London, and then, at the age of 63, to America, where the focus of his work shifted from mathematics to philosophy. Lowe (philosophy emeritus, Johns Hopkins U.) died in 1988 with this biography not quite completed. Vol.2 was edited and seen through publication by J.B. Schneewind, chairman of the Philosophy Department at Johns Hopkins. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
