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6 produkter
6 produkter
Häftad, Engelska, 2018
232 kr
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What is the role of a university in society? In this innovative book, Chris Brink offers the timely reminder that it should have social purpose, as well as achieve academic excellence. The current obsession with rankings and league tables has perpetuated inequality and is preventing social mobility. This book shows how universities can – and should - respond to societal challenges and promote positive social change.
E-bok
Engelska, 2018230 kr
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What is the role of a university in society? In this innovative book, Chris Brink offers the timely reminder that it should have social purpose, as well as achieve academic excellence.
The current obsession with rankings and league tables has perpetuated inequality and is preventing social mobility.
This book shows how universities can – and should - respond to societal challenges and promote positive social change.
Häftad, Engelska, 2025
252 kr
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This book is a conceptual exploration of numbers, offering a unique perspective that blends mathematical insights with philosophical reflections.It includes chapters on specific numbers to illustrate broader theoretical issues, with a notable emphasis on the concept of infinity. The content is designed to be accessible and enjoyable, avoiding heavy mathematical terminology and notation to maintain readability. The book also incorporates historical and biographical snippets, along with occasional irreverent comments, providing an approachable introduction to the world of numbers.This book is for anyone wanting to know more about the philosophy of numbers, including those who may not have a background in mathematics but are curious about the subject.
E-bok
Engelska, 2025363 kr
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This book is a conceptual exploration of numbers, offering a unique perspective that blends mathematical insights with philosophical reflections.It includes chapters on specific numbers to illustrate broader theoretical issues, with a notable emphasis on the concept of infinity. The content is designed to be accessible and enjoyable, avoiding heavy mathematical terminology and notation to maintain readability. The book also incorporates historical and biographical snippets, along with occasional irreverent comments, providing an approachable introduction to the world of numbers.This book is for anyone wanting to know more about the philosophy of numbers, including those who may not have a background in mathematics but are curious about the subject.
Häftad, Engelska, 1997
559 kr
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The calculus of relations has been an important component of the development of logic and algebra since the middle of the nineteenth century, when Augustus De Morgan observed that since a horse is an animal we should be able to infer that the head of a horse is the head of an animal. For this, Aristotelian syllogistic does not suffice: We require relational reasoning. George Boole, in his Mathematical Analysis of Logic of 1847, initiated the treatment of logic as part of mathematics, specifically as part of algebra. Quite the opposite conviction was put forward early this century by Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead in their Principia Mathematica (1910 - 1913): that mathematics was essentially grounded in logic. Logic thus developed in two streams. On the one hand algebraic logic, in which the calculus of relations played a particularly prominent part, was taken up from Boole by Charles Sanders Peirce, who wished to do for the "calculus of relatives" what Boole had done for the calculus of sets. Peirce's work was in turn taken up by Schroder in his Algebra und Logik der Relative of 1895 (the third part of a massive work on the algebra of logic). Schroder's work, however, lay dormant for more than 40 years, until revived by Alfred Tarski in his seminal paper "On the calculus of binary relations" of 1941 (actually his presidential address to the Association for Symbolic Logic).
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2012732 kr
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The calculus of relations has been an important component of the development of logic and algebra since the middle of the nineteenth century, when Augustus De Morgan observed that since a horse is an animal we should be able to infer that the head of a horse is the head of an animal. For this, Aristotelian syllogistic does not suffice: We require relational reasoning. George Boole, in his Mathematical Analysis of Logic of 1847, initiated the treatment of logic as part of mathematics, specifically as part of algebra. Quite the opposite conviction was put forward early this century by Bertrand Russell and Alfred North Whitehead in their Principia Mathematica (1910 - 1913): that mathematics was essentially grounded in logic. Logic thus developed in two streams. On the one hand algebraic logic, in which the calculus of relations played a particularly prominent part, was taken up from Boole by Charles Sanders Peirce, who wished to do for the "calculus of relatives" what Boole had done for the calculus of sets. Peirce''s work was in turn taken up by Schroder in his Algebra und Logik der Relative of 1895 (the third part of a massive work on the algebra of logic). Schroder''s work, however, lay dormant for more than 40 years, until revived by Alfred Tarski in his seminal paper "On the calculus of binary relations" of 1941 (actually his presidential address to the Association for Symbolic Logic).