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Why Beliefs Matter
Reflections on the Nature of Science
E-bok, 2010
208 kr
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In the follow-up to his acclaimed Science in the Looking Glass, Brian Davies discusses deep problems about our place in the world, using a minimum of technical jargon. The book argues that ''absolutist'' ideas of the objectivity of science, dating back to Plato, continue to mislead generations of …
Science in the Looking Glass
What Do Scientists Really Know?
E-bok, 2007
232 kr
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How do scientific conjectures become laws? Why does proof mean different things in different sciences? Do numbers exist, or were they invented? Why do some laws turn out to be wrong?In this wide-ranging book, Brian Davies discusses the basis for scientists'' claims to knowledge about the world. He …
Science in the Looking Glass
What do scientists really know?
Inbunden, 2003
693 kr
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In this wide-ranging book, Brian Davies discusses the basis for scientists' claims to knowledge about the world. He looks at science historically, emphasizing not only the achievements of scientists from Galileo onwards, but also their mistakes. He rejects the claim that all scientific knowledge is …
Why Beliefs Matter
Reflections on the Nature of Science
Häftad, 2014
365 kr
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In the follow-up to his acclaimed Science in the Looking Glass, Brian Davies discusses deep problems about our place in the world, using a minimum of technical jargon. The book argues that 'absolutist' ideas of the objectivity of science, dating back to Plato, continue to mislead generations of …
Science in the Looking Glass
What Do Scientists Really Know?
Häftad, 2007
545 kr
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How do scientific conjectures become laws? Why does proof mean different things in different sciences? Do numbers exist, or were they invented? Why do some laws turn out to be wrong? In this wide-ranging book, Brian Davies discusses the basis for scientists' claims to knowledge about the world. He …
Why Beliefs Matter
Reflections on the Nature of Science
Inbunden, 2010
1170 kr
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This book discusses deep problems about our place in the world with a minimum of technical jargon. It argues that 'absolutist' ideas dating back to Plato continue to mislead generations of theoretical physicists and theologians. It explains that the multi-layered nature of our present descriptions …
Spectral Theory and Differential Operators
Av E. Brian Davies, Bela Bollobas
Häftad, 1996
927 kr
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This book is an introduction to the theory of partial differential operators. It assumes that the reader has a knowledge of introductory functional analysis, up to the spectral theorem for bounded linear operators on Banach spaces. However, it describes the theory of Fourier transforms and …
Spectral Theory and Geometry
Av E. Brian Davies, Yuri Safarov m. fl.
Häftad, 1999
1266 kr
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This volume brings together lectures from an instructional meeting on spectral theory and geometry held under the auspices of the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences in Edinburgh. The contributions here come from world experts and many are much expanded versions of the lectures they …
Linear Operators and their Spectra
Inbunden, 2007
1644 kr
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This wide ranging but self-contained account of the spectral theory of non-self-adjoint linear operators is ideal for postgraduate students and researchers, and contains many illustrative examples and exercises. Fredholm theory, Hilbert-Schmidt and trace class operators are discussed, as are …
