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Price Index and its Extension
By: Afriat, Sydney
Published by: Routledge
The unique and ingenious S.N. Afriat is back and writing on the subject of the Price Index. This book is totally unique and shall be of great interest to economists and statisticians everywhere.
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Price: $250.00
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The Principle of Sufficient Reason
By: Pruss, Alexander R.; Sosa, Ernest; Dancy, Jonathan; Haldane, John; Harman, Gilbert; Jackson, Frank; Lucan, William G.
Published by: Cambridge University Press
The Principle of Sufficient Reason (PSR) says that all contingent facts must have explanation. In this volume, the first on the topic in the English language in nearly half a century, Alexander Pruss examines the substantive philosophical issues raised by the Principle of Sufficient Reason.
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Price: $68.00
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Principles of Mathematics
By: Russell, Bertrand
Published by: Routledge
A precursor to Russell’s famous Principa Mathematica , this is one of the most original and comprehensive treatises on the logical foundation of mathematics available today.
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Price: $29.95
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Problem Solving nelle organizzazioni
By: Chiappi, Roberto
Published by: Springer
E' opinione diffusa che sia la filosofia che la matematica non abbiano una immediata utilitC pratica. Lbuna servirebbe solo a rispondere alle grandi questioni etiche, religiose ed esistenziali; lbaltra a risolvere problemi scientifici e tecnologici circoscritti. In questo libro si mostra invece che molti metodi di risoluzione dei problemi delle organizzazioni (aziendali e non) si fondano su premesse attinte, anche inconsapevolmente proprio dalla filosofia, dalla matematica, ma anche da nuclei di pensiero sistemico ben visibili in filosofi ante litteram. Gli esempi sono numerosissimi e attraversano lbintera storia della cultura umana. Si pensi ad esempio alle Proporzioni di Talete, alla Distanza di Pitagora, alla Maieutica di Socrate alla Logica di Aristotele, al Rasoio di Occam, alle Tavole e agli Idola di Bacone, alle ProbabilitC di Pascal, ai discorsi sul Metodo di Cartesio, ai Grafi di Eulero, ai Giudizi di Kant, alla teoria degli Errori di Gauss, ai Sistemi di Bertalanffy, al Problem solving di Popper, al concetto di Modello di Von Neumann, alla Programmazione lineare di Dantzig, alla RazionalitC limitata di Simon, ecc. Questa rapida mappatura della genealogia filosofica e matematica dei metodi di risoluzione dei problemi organizzativi mostra la centralitC della visione sistemica e del lavoro di gruppo ribaditi dallbautore, anche con alcune esemplificazioni, nella conclusione del volume. Rivolto a tutti coloro che lavorano nelle organizzazioni (manager e professional) e agli studenti che si preparano ad accedervi, il libro si offre come un mezzo per conoscere le radici culturali delle idee, dei metodi e degli strumenti di problem solving e per meglio qualificarne gli usi e leapplicazioni nei diversi contesti operativi.
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Price: $44.95
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Proof And Knowledge In Mathematics
By: Detlefsen, Michael (ed.)
Published by: Routledge
Distinguished contributors tackle the main problem that arizes when considering an epistemology for mathematics, the nature and sources of mathematical justification.
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Price: $135.00
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Proof Logic and Formalization
By: Detlefsen, Michael
Published by: Routledge
A collection of essays from distinguished contributors looking at why it is that mathematical proof is given precedence over other forms of mathematical justification.
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Price: $135.00
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Representation and Productive Ambiguity in Mathematics and the Sciences
By: Grosholz, Emily R.
Published by: Clarendon Press
Emily Grosholz offers an original investigation of demonstration in mathematics and science, examining how it works and why it is persuasive. Focusing on geometrical demonstration, she shows the roles that representation and ambiguity play in mathematical discovery. She presents a wide range of case studies in mechanics, topology, algebra, logic, and chemistry, from ancient Greece to the present day, but focusing particularly on the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. Anyone. interested in how mathematics works will find this a stimulating read. - ;Emily Grosholz offers an original investigation of demonstration in mathematics and science, examining how it works and why it is persuasive. Focusing on geometrical demonstration, she shows the roles that representation and ambiguity play in mathematical discovery. She presents a wide range of case studies in mechanics, topology, algebra, logic, and chemistry, from ancient Greece to the present day, but focusing particularly on the seventeenth and twentieth centuries. She argues. that reductive methods are effective not because they diminish but because they multiply and juxtapose modes of representation. Such problem-solving is, she argues, best understood in terms of Leibnizian 'analysis' - the search for conditions of intelligibility. Discovery and justification are then two. aspects of one rational way of proceeding, which produces the mathematician's formal experience. Grosholz defends the importance of iconic, as well as symbolic and indexical, signs in mathematical representation, and argues that pragmatic, as well as syntactic and semantic, considerations are indispensable for mathematical reasoning. By taking a close look at the way results are presented on the page in mathematical (and biological, chemical, and mechanical) texts, she shows that when two or more traditions combine in the service of problem solving, notations and diagrams are sublty. altered, multiplied, and juxtaposed, and surrounde
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Set Theory and its Philosophy
By: Potter, Michael
Published by: Clarendon Press
a wonderful new book . . . Potter has written the best philosophical introduction to set theory on the market - Timothy Bays, Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews
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Price: $49.95
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A Smoother Pebble
By: Benson, Donald C.
Published by: OUP Oxford
Introduction. I. BRIDGING THE GAP. 1. The Ancient Fractions. 2. Greek Gifts. 3. The Music of the Ratios. II. THE SHAPE OF THINGS. 4. Tubeland. 5. The Calculating Eye. III. THE GREAT ART. 6. Algebra Rules. 7. The Root of the Problem. 8. Symmetry Without Fear. 9. The Magic Mirror. IV. A SMOOTHER PEBBLE. 10. On the Shoulders of Giants. 11. Six-Minute Calculus. 12. Roller-Coaster Science. Glossary. References. Index
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Price: $40.00
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