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9780124649767 | Academic Pr, July 2, 2001, cover price $107.00 | About this edition: The ability to construct proofs is one of the most challenging aspects of the world of mathematics.
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9780080496474 | Elsevier Science Ltd, June 24, 1905, cover price $107.00
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9780691079844 | Princeton Univ Pr, September 1, 1956, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Logic is sometimes called the foundation of mathematics: the logician studies the kinds of reasoning used in the individual steps of a proof.
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9780691029061 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, October 28, 1996), cover price $70.00 | About this edition: Logic is sometimes called the foundation of mathematics: the logician studies the kinds of reasoning used in the individual steps of a proof.
9780527027292 | Periodicals Service Co, June 1, 1944, cover price $13.00
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Product Description: Here the author of How to Solve It explains how to become a "good guesser." Marked by G. Polya's simple, energetic prose and use of clever examples from a wide range of human activities, this two-volume work explores techniques of guessing, inductive reasoning, and reasoning by analogy, and the role they play in the most rigorous of deductive disciplines...read more
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9780999151402 | Princeton Univ Pr, June 1, 1954, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Here the author of How to Solve It explains how to become a "good guesser.
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9780691080062 | Revised edition (Princeton Univ Pr, June 1, 1969), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Here the author of How to Solve It explains how to become a "good guesser.
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9780691025100 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, August 3, 1990), cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Here the author of How to Solve It explains how to become a "good guesser.
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9780198505242 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, August 17, 2000), cover price $199.00 | About this edition: This is a long-awaited new edition of one of the best known Oxford Logic Guides.
9780198531586 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 1, 1977, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: This is a long-awaited new edition of one of the best known Oxford Logic Guides.
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9780198532972 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1990, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: This is a long-awaited new edition of one of the best known Oxford Logic Guides.
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9780442249052 | Van Nostrand Reinhold, February 1, 1982, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: An examination of mathematical logic includes problems and paradoxes devised by such thinkers as Lewis Carroll, Kurt Godel, and Galileo
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9780486296647 | Dover Pubns, July 1, 1997, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Stimulating, thought-provoking analysis of a number of the most interesting intellectual inconsistencies in mathematics, physics, and language.
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9780151252602 | Harcourt, October 1, 1986, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Examines the impact of mathematics on our social life and on our perceptions of reality, knowledge, and time, ranging from ancient Egyptian land surveys to Descartes' work
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9780486442525 | Dover Pubns, March 24, 2005, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: These provocative essays take a modern look at the 17th-century thinker's dream, examining the influences of mathematics on society, particularly in light of technological advances.
9780395431542 | Houghton Mifflin, August 1, 1987, cover price $12.95 | About this edition: Examines the impact of mathematics on our social life and on our perceptions of reality, knowledge, and time
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9780817631635 | Birkhauser, November 1, 1986, cover price $88.50 | About this edition: The traditional debate among philosophers of mathematics is whether there is an external mathematical reality, something out there to be discovered, or whether mathematics is the product of the human mind.
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9780691034980 | Rev sub edition (Princeton Univ Pr, January 12, 1998), cover price $59.50 | About this edition: The traditional debate among philosophers of mathematics is whether there is an external mathematical reality, something out there to be discovered, or whether mathematics is the product of the human mind.
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Edmondson clarifies Buckminster Fuller's synergetic geometry in conventional language and mathematics and illuminates his effort to employ synergetics as a strategy for human survival. Updated author Preface and new Foreword by J. Baldwin. clarifies
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9780817633387 | Birkhauser, January 1, 1987, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: Edmondson clarifies Buckminster Fuller's synergetic geometry in conventional language and mathematics and illuminates his effort to employ synergetics as a strategy for human survival.
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9780442012670 | Reprint edition (Van Nostrand Reinhold, July 1, 1992), cover price $29.95
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9780887064821 | State Univ of New York Pr, February 1, 1987, cover price $74.50
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9780887064838 | State Univ of New York Pr, February 1, 1987, cover price $31.95
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Essays explore the concept of the impossible in mountaineering, biology, medicine, chemistry, computer science, technology, physics, mathematics, law, politics, economics, education, music, and philosophy
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9780716718130 | W H Freeman & Co, March 1, 1987, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Essays explore the concept of the impossible in mountaineering, biology, medicine, chemistry, computer science, technology, physics, mathematics, law, politics, economics, education, music, and philosophy
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9780716719663 | W H Freeman & Co, March 1, 1988, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: Essays explore the concept of the impossible in mountaineering, biology, medicine, chemistry, computer science, technology, physics, mathematics, law, politics, economics, education, music, and philosophy
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9780677012902 | Gordon & Breach Science Pub, July 1, 1987, cover price $218.00
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9789027725066 | D Reidel Pub Co, October 1, 1987, cover price $269.00
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9780821845202 | Amer Mathematical Society, January 1, 1988, cover price $83.00 | About this edition: In the area of mathematical logic, a great deal of attention is now being devoted to the study of nonclassical logics.
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9780709933571 | Routledge Kegan & Paul, January 1, 1988, cover price $53.00 | About this edition: A layman's guide to the mechanics of Godel's proof together with a lucid discussion of the issues which it raises.
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9780415045759 | Routledge, February 22, 1990, cover price $40.95 | About this edition: A layman's guide to the mechanics of Godel's proof together with a lucid discussion of the issues which it raises.
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9780198249573 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, September 1, 1988, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: Challenging the myth that mathematical objects can be defined into existence, Bigelow here employs Armstrong's metaphysical materialism to cast new light on mathematics.
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9780500810309 | Thames & Hudson, March 1, 1989, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Discusses the mythological properties assigned to geometric forms, and covers the Golden Section, gnomonic spirals, music, and the squaring of the circle
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9780792301875 | Kluwer Academic Pub, April 1, 1989, cover price $289.00
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Product Description: Did Cantor discover the rich and strange world of transfinite sets (which Hilbert was to call Cantor's "Paradise") or did he create it? Are set theorists now discovering more about the universe to which Cantor showed us the way, are they discovering more about what he created or are they continuing the creative process? Set theory is a product of the 19th-century movement to impose increasing rigour on mathematics, which culminated in the logicism of Frege and Russell and the formalism of Hilbert...read more
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9780631152859, titled "The Philosophy of Set Theory: An Introduction to Cantor's Paradise" | Blackwell Pub, May 1, 1989, cover price $61.95 | About this edition: Did Cantor discover the rich and strange world of transfinite sets (which Hilbert was to call Cantor's "Paradise") or did he create it?
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Product Description: "Realism, Mathematics and Modality" presents the work of Hartry Filed, described as one of the world's most influential philosophers of mathematics, and combines central papers in that area (two of them rewritten for this volume) with a new overview, an essay on the philosophy of space and time and new postscripts...read more
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9780631163039 | Blackwell Pub, June 1, 1989, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: This volume presents the work of a philosopher of mathematics, and combines central papers in that area with an essay on the philosophy of space and time.
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9780631180876 | Reprint edition (Blackwell Pub, December 1, 1991), cover price $27.95 | About this edition: "Realism, Mathematics and Modality" presents the work of Hartry Filed, described as one of the world's most influential philosophers of mathematics, and combines central papers in that area (two of them rewritten for this volume) with a new overview, an essay on the philosophy of space and time and new postscripts.
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9780792301318 | Kluwer Academic Pub, September 1, 1989, cover price $229.00
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9780198249344 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 1989, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Hellman here presents a detailed interpretation of mathematics as the investigation of "structural possibilities," as opposed to absolute, Platonic objects.
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9780198240341 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 13, 1994), cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Hellman here presents a detailed interpretation of mathematics as the investigation of "structural possibilities," as opposed to absolute, Platonic objects.
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9789060320365 | John Benjamins Pub Co, December 1, 1989, cover price $188.00
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9780534921637 | 3 sub edition (Pws Pub Co, March 1, 1990), cover price $50.95 | About this edition: This book should be of interest to degree and diploma students taking introductory courses in mathematics.
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9780486696096 | 3 sub edition (Dover Pubns, May 20, 1997), cover price $16.95 | About this edition: Third edition of popular undergraduate-level text offers overview of historical roots and evolution of several areas of mathematics.
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9780198248170 | Oxford Univ Pr, August 23, 1990, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Chihara here develops a mathematical system in which there are no existence assertions but only assertions of the constructibility of certain sorts of things.
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9780198239758 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, August 15, 1991, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: Chihara here develops a mathematical system in which there are no existence assertions but only assertions of the constructibility of certain sorts of things.
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