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The Non-Local Universe
By: Nadeau, Robert; Kafatos, Menas
Published by: OUP Oxford

Classical physics states that physical reality is local, or that a measurement at one point in space cannot cannot influence what occurs at another beyond a fairly short distance. Until recently this seemed like an immutable truth in nature. However, in 1997 experiments were conducted in which light particles (photons) originated under certain conditions and traveled in opposite directions to detectors located about seven miles apart. The amazing results indicated that the photons "interacted" or "communicated" with one another instantly or "in no time," leading to the revelation that physical reality is non-local--a discovery that Robert Nadeau and Menas Kafatos view as "the most momentous in the history of science.". In pursuing this groundbreaking argument, the authors provide a fascinating history of developments that led to the discovery of non-locality and the sometimes heated debate between the great scientists responsible for these discoveries. What this new knowledge reveals, the authors conclude, is that the connection between mind and nature is far more intimate than we previously dared to imagine. What they offer is a revolutionary look at the implications of non-locality, implications that reach deep into that most intimate aspect of humanity--consciousness. more...

Price: $17.05


18 Unconventional Essays on the Nature of Mathematics
By: Hersh, Reuben (ed.)
Published by: Springer

What is the nature of the objects being studied? What determines the directions and styles in which mathematics progresses (or, perhaps, degenerates)? This book collects some of the writings tackling the problem of giving an account of the nature, purpose, and justification of mathematics as actually done by real live mathematicians. more...

Price: $54.95


6000 Jahre Mathematik
By: Wuaing, Hans
Published by: Springer

Die Urspr??nge mathematischen Denkens, d.h. die Bildung abstrakter Begriffe und die Herstellung von Beziehungen zwischen ihnen, liegen nach heutigem Wissen in den Hochkulturen Mesopotamiens und ??gyptens im 4. Jahrtausend v. Chr. Hier beginnt der Autor seine Zeitreise durch die Mathematik und verfolgt ihre Geschichte bis in ausgehende 20. Jahrhundert. Mathematische Ideen, Methoden und Ergebnisse sowie die sie tragenden Menschen werden ebenso pr??gnant und lebendig geschildert, wie die Kulturen und das Umfeld, in denen Mathematik entstand und sich in Wechselwirkung mit der Gesellschaft entwickelte. Ein spannendes Lesevergn??gen f??r Mathematiker und alle an Mathematik und seiner Geschichte als Teil unserer Kultur Interessierte Der erste Band umfasst die Zeit von den Urspr??ngen bis Zeit der wissenschaftlichen Revolution des 17. Jahrhunderts. more...

Price: $39.95


6000 Jahre Mathematik
By: Wuaing, Hans
Published by: Springer

Mit dem Namen Euler wird vielfach der Beginn der modernen Mathematik verknA1/4pft. Ausgehend von seinem Leben und seiner wissenschaftlichen Arbeit wird im zweiten Teil der mathematisch-kulturhistorischen Zeitreise der Werdegang der heutigen Mathematik schrittweise nachvollzogen und illustriert. Da ein vollstAndiger Aoeberblick A1/4ber die hoch komplexe und fragmentiert Entwicklung der Mathematik im ausgehenden 20. Jahrhundert auf kurzem Raum unmAglich, hat sich der Autor auf wichtige und exemplarische Entwicklungen konzentriert. Abgerundet wird der Band durch einen Ausblick von E. Zeidler A1/4ber zukA1/4nftige Forschungsschwerpunkte innerhalb der Mathematik. Ein spannendes LesevergnA1/4gen fA1/4r Mathematiker und alle an Mathematik und seiner Geschichte als Teil unserer Kultur Interessierten more...

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Abels Beweis
By: Pesic, Peter
Published by: Springer

1824 gelang einem jungen Norweger namens Niels Henrik Abel der endgltige Beweis, da algebraische Gleichungen fnften Grades im allgemeinen nicht durch Wurzeln auflsbar sind. In diesem Buch zeigt Peter Pesic auf, welche Bedeutung diesem Ereignis in der Geschichte des Denkens zukommt. Es ist aber auch eine bemerkenswerte menschliche Geschichte, denn Abel war einundzwanzig, als er seinen Beweis auf eigene Kosten verffentlichte, und fnf Jahre spter starb er, verarmt und deprimiert, kurz bevor sein Beweis begann, weite Anerkennung zu finden. Abels Versuche, die mathematische Elite seiner Zeit zu erreichen, erlebten eine verchtliche Abweisung; es war ihm nicht mglich, eine Anstellung zu finden, die es ihm erlaubte, in Ruhe zu arbeiten und seine Verlobte zu heiraten. Aber Pesics Geschichte beginnt lange vor Abels Zeit und setzt sich bis zum heutigen Tage fort, denn Abels Beweis nderte die Art und Weise, wie wir ber Mathematik und ihren Bezug zur "wirklichen" Welt nachdenken. Beginnend bei den Griechen, bei denen die Idee der mathematischen Beweise entstand, zeigt Pesic, wie die Mathematik ihre Ursprnge im realen Leben nahm (den Formen von Sachen, den Buchfhrungsbedarf von Kaufleuten) und dann ber diese Ursprnge hinaus auf etwas Umfassenderes zu zielen. Die Versuche der Pythagorer, mit irrationalen Gren umzugehen, kndigen das langsame Entstehen der abstrakten Mathematik an. Pesic konzentriert sich auf die umstrittene Entwicklung der Algebra - der sogar Newton widerstand - und der allmhlichen Anerkennung ihres Nutzens und ihrer Schnheit in der Abstraktrion, die Realitten in Dimensionen jenseits menschlicher Erfahrung zu beschwren scheint. Pesic erzhlt diese Geschichte hauptschlich alseine Geschichte der Ideen; mathematische Details werden auerhalb des Haupttextes ausgefhrt. Das Buch enthlt auch eine neue, kommentierte bersetzung von Abels originalem Beweis. more...

Price: $29.95


Agenda Relevance
By: Unknown
Published by: North Holland

Agenda Relevance is the first volume in the authors' omnibus investigation of. the logic of practical reasoning, under the collective title, A Practical Logic. of Cognitive Systems. In this highly original approach, practical reasoning is. identified as reasoning performed with comparatively few cognitive assets,. including resources such as information, time and computational capacity. Unlike. what is proposed in optimization models of human cognition, a practical reasoner. lacks perfect information, boundless time and unconstrained access to. computational complexity. The practical reasoner is therefore obliged to be a. cognitive economizer and to achieve his cognitive ends with considerable. efficiency. Accordingly, the practical reasoner avails himself of various. scarce-resource compensation strategies. He also possesses neurocognitive. traits that abet him in his reasoning tasks. Prominent among these is the. practical agent's striking (though not perfect) adeptness at evading irrelevant. information and staying on task. On the approach taken here, irrelevancies are. impediments to the attainment of cognitive ends. Thus, in its most basic sense,. relevant information is cognitively helpful information. Information can then be. said to be relevant for a practical reasoner to the extent that it advances or. closes some cognitive agenda of his. The book explores this idea with a. conceptual detail and nuance not seen the standard semantic, probabilistic and. pragmatic approaches to relevance; but wherever possible, the authors seek to. integrate alternative conceptions rather than reject them outright. A further. attraction of the agenda-relevance approach is the extent to which its principal. conceptual findings lend themselves to technically sophisticated re-expression. in formal models that marshal the resources of time and action logics and. label led deductive systems. Agenda Relevance is necessary reading for researchers in logic, belief. dynamics, more...

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Als die Welt still stand
By: Naess, Atle; Hartmann-Butt, K. (trans.)
Published by: Springer

Die preisgekrC6nte Biographie des norwegische Schriftstellers Atle Naess fuhrt den Leser auf eine fesselnde Reise durch die HC6hen und Tiefen des Lebens einer der schillerndsten PersC6nlichkeiten der europC$ischen Wissenschaftsgeschichte - Galileo Galilei. Mit feinsinniger Empathie entwickelt Naess das Portrait eines Mannes, der sich selbst durch die ZwC$nge der rC6mischen Inquisition nicht von seinen wegweisenden Forschungen abbringen lieC. Aus den Rezensionen der norwegischen Ausgabe: "Mit umfassender Kenntnis und sicherem ErzC$hlstil hebt Naess die epochemachenden Arbeiten hervor, die die Grundlage der modernen experimentellen Naturwissenschaften bilden. Er packt all die vielen Stationen [Galileis] Lebens in ein sehr lesenswertes Buch, das in vielerlei Hinsicht hervorsticht." Per Anders Madsen, Aftenposten Morgen "Diese Biographie stellt eine  faszinierende kulturhistorische Studie dar und ist daher nicht nur fur Leser mit Interesse an Naturwissenschaft und Wissenschaftsgeschichte geeignet. Sie kann auch hervorragend als Roman gelesen werden." Atle Abelsen, Teknisk Ukeblad more...

Price: $29.95


Amazing Traces Of A Babylonian Origin In Greek Mathematics
By: Friberg, Jöran
Published by: World Scientific

A sequel to Unexpected Links Between Egyptian and Babylonian Mathematics (World Scientific, 2005), this book is based on the author’s intensive and ground breaking studies of the long history of Mesopotamian mathematics, from the late 4th to the late 1st millennium BC. It is argued in the book that several of the most famous Greek mathematicians appear to have been familiar with various aspects of Babylonian “metric algebra,” a convenient name for an elaborate combination of geometry, metrology, and quadratic equations that is known from both Babylonian and pre-Babylonian mathematical clay tablets. The book’s use of “metric algebra diagrams” in the Babylonian style, where the side lengths and areas of geometric figures are explicitly indicated, instead of wholly abstract “lettered diagrams” in the Greek style, is essential for an improved understanding of many interesting propositions and constructions in Greek mathematical works. The author’s comparisons with Babylonian mathematics also lead to new answers to some important open questions in the history of Greek mathematics. more...

Price: $127.40


Ancient Mathematics
By: Cuomo, Serafina
Published by: Routledge

The discoveries and insights of ancient mathematics continue to amaze and fascinate the modern reader. This volume offers the first accessible survey of the discipline in all its variety and diversity of practices. more...

Price: $41.95


Apollonius de Perge
By: Rashed, Roshdi (ed.); Decorps-Foulquier, Micheline (ed.); Federspiel, Michel (ed.)
Published by: Walter de Gruyter

The treatise on conic sections by the Hellenistic mathematician Apollonius from Perga is regarded as a supreme achievement of Greek mathematics and maintained its authority right up to the 18th century. This new edition is the first to consider all Greek and Arabic sources, with the Arabic texts being presented in the first ever critical edition. Both versions of the text are accompanied by a French translation, an extensive mathematical commentary, numerous philological notes and a complete glossary. The four volumes of the edition are intended to be completed in 2009. more...

Price: $207.00


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