How Not to Be Wrong
How Not to Be Wrong

Author: Jordan Ellenberg

Publisher: Penguin Press

Published: 2014-05-29

Total Pages: 480

ISBN-13: 1594205221

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A brilliant tour of mathematical thought and a guide to becoming a better thinker, How Not to Be Wrong shows that math is not just a long list of rules to be learned and carried out by rote. Math touches everything we do; It's what makes the world make sense. Using the mathematician's methods and hard-won insights-minus the jargon-professor and popular columnist Jordan Ellenberg guides general readers through his ideas with rigor and lively irreverence, infusing everything from election results to baseball to the existence of God and the psychology of slime molds with a heightened sense of clarity and wonder. Armed with the tools of mathematics, we can see the hidden structures beneath the messy and chaotic surface of our daily lives. How Not to Be Wrong shows us how--Publisher's description.

Mathematics and the Image of Reason
Mathematics and the Image of Reason

Author: Mary Tiles

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-01-11

Total Pages: 210

ISBN-13: 1134967713

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A thorough account of the philosophy of mathematics. In a cogent account the author argues against the view that mathematics is solely logic.

Rules, Magic and Instrumental Reason
Rules, Magic and Instrumental Reason

Author: Berel Dov Lerner

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-12-16

Total Pages: 196

ISBN-13: 1136404929

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This book offers a systematic and critical discussion of Peter Winch's writings on the philosophy of the social sciences. The author points to Winch's tendency to over-emphasize the importance of language and communication, and his insufficient attention to the role of practical, technological activites in human life and society. It also offers an appendix devoted to the controversy between the anthropologists Marshall Sahlins and Gananath Obeyesekere regarding Captain James Cook's Hawaiian adventures. Essential reading for those studying the development of philosophy in the twentieth century, this book will also be of great interest to anthropologists, sociologists, scholars of religion, and all those with an interest in the relationship between philosophy and the social sciences.

Negative Math
Negative Math

Author: Alberto A. Martínez

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 288

ISBN-13: 9780691123097

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Explores controversies in the history of numbers, especially the so-called negative and ''impossible'' numbers. This book uses history, puzzles, and lively debates to demonstrate how it is possible to devise new artificial systems of mathematical rules. It contends that departures from traditional rules can even be the basis for new applications.