Mathematics and Logic (Paperback)

Mark Kac

ISBN 10: 0486670856 / ISBN 13: 9780486670850

Verlag: Dover Publications Inc., New York, 2003

Beschreibung

Paperback. What is mathematics? How was it created and who were and are the people creating and practicing it? Can one describe its development and role in the history of scientific thinking and can one predict the future? This book is a thought-provoking attempt to answer such questions and to suggest the scope and depth of the subject.The volume begins with a discussion of problems involving integers in which ideas of infinity appear and proceeds through the evolution of more abstract ideas about numbers and geometrical objects. The authors show how mathematicians came to consider groups of general transformations and then, looking upon the sets of such subjects as spaces, how they attempted to build theories of structures in general. Also considered here are the relations between mathematics and the empirical disciplines, the profound effect of high-speed computers on the scope of mathematical experimentation, and the question of how much mathematical progress depends on ""invention"" and how much on ""discovery."" For mathematicians, physicists, or any student of the evolution of mathematical thought, this highly regarded study offers a stimulating investigation of the essential nature of mathematics. Fascinating study of the origin and nature of mathematical thought, including relation of mathematics and science, 20th-century developments, impact of computers, more. Includes 34 illustrations. 1968 edition. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780486670850

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Mathematics and Logic (Paperback)
• Verlag: Dover Publications Inc., New York
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0486670856
• ISBN-13: 9780486670850
• Einband: Paperback
• Zustand: new

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

Fascinating study considers the origins and nature of mathematics, its development and role in the history of scientific thinking, impact of high-speed computers, 20th-century changes in the foundations of mathematics and mathematical logic, mathematization of science and technology, much more. Compelling reading for anyone interested in the evolution of mathematical thought. Includes 34 illustrations. 1968 edition.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mark Kac was a distinguished mathematician formerly of the Rockefeller Institute and Cornell University. Stanislaw M. Ulam was a well-known nuclear scientist and mathematician who worked on the Manhattan Project and taught at Harvard University and the Universities of Wisconsin and Colorado.