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Product Description: John Burgess is the author of a rich and creative body of work which seeks to defend classical logic and mathematics through counter-criticism of their nominalist, intuitionist, relevantist, and other critics. This selection of his essays, which spans twenty-five years, addresses key topics including nominalism, neo-logicism, intuitionism, modal logic, analyticity, and translation...read more
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9780521880343 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 31, 2008, cover price $104.00 | About this edition: John Burgess is the author of a rich and creative body of work which seeks to defend classical logic and mathematics through counter-criticism of their nominalist, intuitionist, relevantist, and other critics.

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9780521189675 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 3, 2011), cover price $39.99 | About this edition: John Burgess is the author of a rich and creative body of work which seeks to defend classical logic and mathematics through counter-criticism of their nominalist, intuitionist, relevantist, and other critics.

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Product Description: Discussions of the foundations of mathematics and their history are frequently restricted to logical issues in a narrow sense, or else to traditional problems of analytic philosophy. From Dedekind to Gödel: Essays on the Development of the Foundations of Mathematics illustrates the much greater variety of the actual developments in the foundations during the period covered...read more
By Jaakko Hintikka (editor)
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9780792334842 | Kluwer Academic Print on Demand, December 1, 1995, cover price $319.00 | About this edition: Discussions of the foundations of mathematics and their history are frequently restricted to logical issues in a narrow sense, or else to traditional problems of analytic philosophy.

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9789048145546 | Springer Verlag, December 31, 2010, cover price $319.00 | About this edition: Discussions of the foundations of mathematics and their history are frequently restricted to logical issues in a narrow sense, or else to traditional problems of analytic philosophy.

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Product Description: This unique textbook states and proves all the major theorems of many-valued propositional logic and provides the reader with the most recent developments and trends, including applications to adaptive error-correcting binary search...read more
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9780792360094 | Kluwer Academic Pub, December 1, 1999, cover price $169.00 | About this edition: This unique textbook states and proves all the major theorems of many-valued propositional logic and provides the reader with the most recent developments and trends, including applications to adaptive error-correcting binary search.

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9789048153367 | Springer Verlag, December 2, 2010, cover price $169.00 | About this edition: This unique textbook states and proves all the major theorems of many-valued propositional logic and provides the reader with the most recent developments and trends, including applications to adaptive error-correcting binary search.

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Product Description: In Mathematical Thought and Its Objects, Charles Parsons examines the notion of object, with the aim to navigate between nominalism, denying that distinctively mathematical objects exist, and forms of Platonism that postulate a transcendent realm of such objects...read more
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9780521452793 | Cambridge Univ Pr, January 31, 2008, cover price $110.00 | About this edition: In Mathematical Thought and Its Objects, Charles Parsons examines the notion of object, with the aim to navigate between nominalism, denying that distinctively mathematical objects exist, and forms of Platonism that postulate a transcendent realm of such objects.

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US release of the award-winning historical novel about the first philosopher - Pythagoras. Written from a unique point of view by Lebanese author Karim El Koussa.
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9781934597163, titled "Pythagoras the Mathemagician" | Sunbury Pr Inc, October 11, 2010, cover price $19.95
9780976940425 | Cloonfad Pr, September 30, 2005, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: US release of the award-winning historical novel about the first philosopher - Pythagoras.

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Product Description: The inventor of pragmatism, Charles Peirce is a seminal figure in the development of modern logic. His searching investigations in the "logic of science" have profoundly influenced subsequent work in epistemology and the philosophy of science, and his semiotics has had a similar impact on the philosophy of language...read more
By Matthew E. Moore (editor)
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9780812696813 | Open Court Pub Co, November 1, 2010, cover price $89.95 | About this edition: The inventor of pragmatism, Charles Peirce is a seminal figure in the development of modern logic.

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Product Description: As a mathematician, philosopher, logician, historian, socialist, pacifist and social critic, Bertrand Russell is noted for his "revolt against idealism" in Britain in the early 20th century, as well as his pacifist activism during WWI, a campaign against Adolf Hitler and later the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War...read more
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9781110359929 | Lightning Source Inc, May 30, 2009, cover price $28.99 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

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9781110359899 | Lightning Source Inc, May 30, 2009, cover price $23.75 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9780851247380 | Reprint edition (Spokesman Pr, July 1, 2008), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: This volume is produced from digital images created by the Internet Archive for The University of Toronto Libraries.
9781408681664 | Read Books, February 22, 2008, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive.
9781602062917 | Cosimo Inc, April 30, 2007, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Not to be confused with the philosophy of mathematics, mathematical philosophy is the structured set of rules that govern all existence.
9780486277240 | Dover Pubns, September 14, 1993, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Seminal work by great modern philosopher and mathematician focuses on certain issues of mathematical logic that Russell believed invalidated much traditional and contemporary philosophy.
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Product Description: Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner once wondered about "the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" in the formulation of the laws of nature. Is God a Mathematician? investigates why mathematics is as powerful as it is. From ancient times to the present, scientists and philosophers have marveled at how such a seemingly abstract discipline could so perfectly explain the natural world...read more
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9780743294058 | Simon & Schuster, January 6, 2009, cover price $26.00 | About this edition: Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner once wondered about "the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" in the formulation of the laws of nature.

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9780743294065 | Simon & Schuster, January 19, 2010, cover price $15.00 | About this edition: Nobel Laureate Eugene Wigner once wondered about "the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" in the formulation of the laws of nature.

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Product Description: When engineers, computer scientists, and economists need to learn how to read, think about, and create proofs, they turn to Solow. In order to make the material more relevant, the exercises in each chapter have been revised and expanded...read more
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9780470392164 | 5th edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, October 19, 2009), cover price $73.85 | About this edition: When engineers, computer scientists, and economists need to learn how to read, think about, and create proofs, they turn to Solow.
9780471680581 | 4th edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, October 25, 2004), cover price $76.70 | About this edition: An easy-to-use guide that shows how to read, understand, and do proofs.
9780471406471 | John Wiley & Sons Inc, June 1, 2001, cover price $46.90 | About this edition: This book categorizes, identifies and explains the various techniques that are used repeatedly in all proofs and explains how to read proofs that arise in mathematical literature by understanding which techniques are used and how they are applied.
9780471510048 | 2 sub edition (John Wiley & Sons Inc, April 1, 1990), cover price $45.45 | About this edition: This straightforward guide describes the main methods used to prove mathematical theorems.

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Product Description: This book is about "diamond", a logic of paradox. In diamond, a statment can be true yet false; an "imaginary" state, midway between being and non-being. Diamond's imaginary values solve many logical paradoxes unsolvable in two-valued Boolean logic...read more
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9789810228507 | World Scientific Pub Co Inc, February 1, 1997, cover price $63.00 | About this edition: This book is about "diamond", a logic of paradox.

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Product Description: From the mysterious cult of Pythagoras to the awesome mechanics of Stonehenge to the “gargoyles” and fractals on today’s computers, mathematics has always been a powerful, even divine force in the world. In a lively, intelligent synthesis of math, mysticism, and science fiction, Clifford Pickover explains the eternal magic of numbers...read more
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9781402764004 | Reprint edition (Sterling Pub Co Inc, May 5, 2009), cover price $17.95 | About this edition: From the mysterious cult of Pythagoras to the awesome mechanics of Stonehenge to the “gargoyles” and fractals on today’s computers, mathematics has always been a powerful, even divine force in the world.

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Product Description: This volume represents a radical departure from the current philosophical duopoly in the area of foundations of probability, that is, the frequency and subjective theories. One of the main new ideas is a set of scientific laws of probability...read more
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9789814273701 | World Scientific Pub Co Inc, April 25, 2009, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: This volume represents a radical departure from the current philosophical duopoly in the area of foundations of probability, that is, the frequency and subjective theories.

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Product Description: A fascinating and inspirational look at the vital link between the hidden geometrical order of the universe, geometry in nature, and the geometry of the man-made world.The Da Vinci Code has awakened the public to the powerful and very ancient idea that religious truths and mathematical principles are intimately intertwined...read more
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9781402741296 | Sterling Pub Co Inc, November 28, 2006, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This thought-provoking volume explores the important link between the underlying geometrical order of the universe in both nature and the human-made world, revealing how mathematical discoveries constantly appear in biology and physics, and how they have inspired the greatest works of art.

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9781402765827 | Reprint edition (Sterling Pub Co Inc, March 3, 2009), cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A fascinating and inspirational look at the vital link between the hidden geometrical order of the universe, geometry in nature, and the geometry of the man-made world.

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Product Description: Mathematics often seems incomprehensible, a melee of strange symbols thrown down on a page. But while formulae, theorems, and proofs can involve highly complex concepts, the math becomes transparent when viewed as part of a bigger picture...read more
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9780801890178 | 1 edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, December 19, 2008), cover price $64.00 | About this edition: Mathematics often seems incomprehensible, a melee of strange symbols thrown down on a page.

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9780801890185 | 1 edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, December 22, 2008), cover price $29.50 | About this edition: Mathematics often seems incomprehensible, a melee of strange symbols thrown down on a page.

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Product Description: Grounding Concepts tackles the issue of arithmetical knowledge, developing a new position which respects three intuitions which have appeared impossible to satisfy simultaneously: a priorism, mind-independence realism, and empiricism...read more
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9780199231577 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 15, 2008, cover price $74.00 | About this edition: Grounding Concepts tackles the issue of arithmetical knowledge, developing a new position which respects three intuitions which have appeared impossible to satisfy simultaneously: a priorism, mind-independence realism, and empiricism.

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Product Description: Mathieu Marion offers a careful, historically informed study of Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics. This area of his work has frequently been undervalued by Wittgenstein specialists and by philosophers of mathematics alike; but the surprising fact that he wrote more on this subject than on any other indicates its centrality in his thought...read more
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9780198235163 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 4, 1999, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: This pioneering book demonstrates the crucial importance of Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics to his philosophy as a whole.

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9780199550470 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 15, 2008, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Mathieu Marion offers a careful, historically informed study of Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics.

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Product Description: New Book
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9780195334579 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 25, 2008, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: New Book

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Product Description: Practical Foundations of Mathematics explains the basis of mathematical reasoning both in pure mathematics itself (algebra and topology in particular) and in computer science. In addition to the formal logic, this volume examines the relationship between computer languages and "plain English" mathematical proofs...read more
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9780521631075 | Cambridge Univ Pr, June 1, 1999, cover price $160.00 | About this edition: Practical Foundations of Mathematics explains the basis of mathematical reasoning both in pure mathematics itself (algebra and topology in particular) and in computer science.

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9780521070430 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 31, 2008), cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Practical Foundations of Mathematics explains the basis of mathematical reasoning both in pure mathematics itself (algebra and topology in particular) and in computer science.

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Product Description: Structural proof theory is a branch of logic that studies the general structure and properties of logical and mathematical proofs. This book is both a concise introduction to the central results and methods of structural proof theory, and a work of research that will be of interest to specialists...read more
By Aarne Ranta (contributor)
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9780521068420 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, July 10, 2008), cover price $41.00 | About this edition: Structural proof theory is a branch of logic that studies the general structure and properties of logical and mathematical proofs.

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Product Description: Jody Azzouni argues in this original and exciting study that mathematical knowledge really is a special kind of knowledge with its own special means of gathering evidence. He analyzes the linguistic pitfalls and misperceptions philosophers in this field are often prone to, and explores the misapplications of epistemic principles from the empirical sciences to the exact sciences...read more
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9780521442237 | Cambridge Univ Pr, April 1, 1994, cover price $125.00 | About this edition: Jody Azzouni argues in this original and exciting study that mathematical knowledge really is a special kind of knowledge with its own special means of gathering evidence.

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9780521062190 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, May 15, 2008), cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Jody Azzouni argues in this original and exciting study that mathematical knowledge really is a special kind of knowledge with its own special means of gathering evidence.

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Product Description: This book is an introduction to nonclassical propositional logics. It brings together for the first time in a textbook a range of topics in logic, many of them of relatively recent origin, including modal, conditional, intuitionist, many-valued, paraconsistent, relevant and fuzzy logics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780521790987 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 19, 2001, cover price $70.00 | About this edition: This book is an introduction to nonclassical propositional logics.

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9780521794343 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 1, 2001, cover price $24.99 | About this edition: This book is an introduction to nonclassical propositional logics.

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Product Description: In his long-awaited new edition of Philosophy of Mathematics, James Robert Brown tackles important new as well as enduring questions in the mathematical sciences. Can pictures go beyond being merely suggestive and actually prove anything? Are mathematical results certain? Are experiments of any real value? This clear and engaging book takes a unique approach, encompassing non-standard topics such as the role of visual reasoning, the importance of notation, and the place of computers in mathematics, as well as traditional topics such as formalism, Platonism, and constructivism...read more
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9780415960489 | 2 edition (Routledge, March 30, 2008), cover price $135.00 | About this edition: In his long-awaited new edition of Philosophy of Mathematics, James Robert Brown tackles important new as well as enduring questions in the mathematical sciences.

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9780415960472 | 2 edition (Routledge, February 1, 2008), cover price $36.95 | About this edition: In his long-awaited new edition of Philosophy of Mathematics, James Robert Brown tackles important new as well as enduring questions in the mathematical sciences.

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9780203932964 | 2 edition (Routledge, January 15, 2008), cover price $35.95

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The best-selling author of Advent of the Algorithm and A Tour of the Calculus traces the history of mathematics over the course of 2,500 years, profiling ten important developments and figures in math, including Pythagorus, Euclid, Descartes, Leibniz, and Cantor, among others. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
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9780679642343 | Modern Library, September 1, 2005, cover price $21.95 | About this edition: Traces the history of mathematics over the course of 2,500 years, profiling ten important developments and figures, including Pythagoras, Euclid, Descartes, Leibniz, and Cantor.

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9780812978711 | Reprint edition (Modern Library, January 8, 2008), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: The best-selling author of Advent of the Algorithm and A Tour of the Calculus traces the history of mathematics over the course of 2,500 years, profiling ten important developments and figures in math, including Pythagorus, Euclid, Descartes, Leibniz, and Cantor, among others.

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Product Description: The manuscript gives a coherent and detailed account of the theory of series in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. It provides in one place an account of many results that are generally to be found - if at all - scattered throughout the historical and textbook literature...read more
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9780387734675 | Springer Verlag, December 1, 2007, cover price $134.00 | About this edition: The manuscript gives a coherent and detailed account of the theory of series in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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9781441925206 | Springer Verlag, December 18, 2007, cover price $134.00 | About this edition: The manuscript gives a coherent and detailed account of the theory of series in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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Product Description: Volume 6 contains a selection of material exhibiting many of Hilbert’s philosophical and foundational views on particular theories and the exact sciences in general, drawn from his private notebooks and from lectures for more general audiences held in the 1920s.
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9783540205791 | Springer Verlag, February 28, 2012, cover price $135.00 | About this edition: Volume 6 contains a selection of material exhibiting many of Hilbert’s philosophical and foundational views on particular theories and the exact sciences in general, drawn from his private notebooks and from lectures for more general audiences held in the 1920s.

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