The Logic of the Plausible and Some of its Applications - Hardcover

Leclercq, Rene

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0306307936 ISBN 13: 9780306307935

Verlag: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, 1974

Inhaltsangabe

So simple and imperfect as it may appear this book has made use of knowledge on invention and discovery accumu- lated during a lifetime. Those persons who would be tempted to emphasize only its imperfections should read the correspondence exchanged between Cantor and Dedekind at the end of the nineteenth century; they would then realize how difficult it was, even for an outstanding man, the creator of the set theory, to propose impeccable results in a completely new field. The field I have chosen here is plausibility. I have proposed an intuitive, some would say a naive, presentation as I want to reach as large an audience as possible and because I personally believe that it is easier to axiomatize a mathematical theory precisely than to dis- cover it and enunciate its key theorems. Professor Polya said: "The truly creative mathematician is a good guesser first and a good prover afterward. " For centuries a formalized generalized logic was found necessary and many attempts have been made to build it. vi Preface Mine is based on plausibility which covers with precision a wider field than probability and makes the formalization of analogy and generalization possible. As Laplace said: "Even in the mathematical sciences, our principal instru- ments to discover the truth are induction and analogy. "* The examples of application I have chosen are not des- cribed in detail.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1974
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0306307936
• ISBN 13: 9780306307935
• Einband: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Anzahl der Seiten: 80
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