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9780471961987 | John Wiley & Son Ltd, August 1, 1996, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: Proof has been and remains one of the concepts which characterises mathematics.
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9780471961994 | John Wiley & Son Ltd, August 1, 1996, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: Proof has been and remains one of the concepts which characterises mathematics.
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9780387946177 | Springer Verlag, February 1, 1996, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: This text is designed for students preparing to engage in their first struggles to understand and write proofs and to read mathematics independently.
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Product Description: This ambitious work puts forward a new account of mathematics-as-language that challenges the coherence of the accepted idea of infinity and suggests a startlingly new conception of counting. The author questions the familiar, classical interpretation of whole numbers held by mathematicians, and replaces it with a radical alternative...read more
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9780804721271 | Stanford Univ Pr, June 1, 1993, cover price $59.95 | About this edition: This ambitious work puts forward a new account of mathematics-as-language that challenges the coherence of the accepted idea of infinity and suggests a startlingly new conception of counting.
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9780521559614 | Cambridge Univ Pr, July 1, 1995, cover price $85.00 | About this edition: This volume gives an overview of linear logic in five parts: category theory; complexity and expressivity; proof theory; proof nets; and the geometry of interaction.
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Product Description: The algorithm is just code, but it makes things happen. It's the set of abstract, detailed instructions that makes computers run. Any programmer can invent a new algorithm-and many have become millionaires doing just that. Computers, the Internet, virtual reality-our world is being transformed before our eyes, all because some quirky logicians and mathematicians followed the dream of ultimate abstraction and invented the algorithm...read more
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9780756761660, titled "Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea That Rules the World" | Diane Pub Co, November 1, 2000, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: The algorithm is just code, but it makes things happen.
9780151003389 | Harcourt, March 1, 2000, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Describes the invention of the algorithm, first theorized by Leibniz, and the dramatic implications of this mathematical discovery on the development of computer technology and the working of DNA
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9783540634591 | Springer Verlag, September 1, 1997, cover price $71.95 | About this edition: This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Algebraic and Logic Programming, ALP '97 and the 3rd International Workshop on Higher-Order Algebra, Logic and Term Rewriting, HOA '97, held jointly in Southampton, UK, in September 1997.
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9780792360094 | Kluwer Academic Pub, December 1, 1999, cover price $169.00 | About this edition: This unique textbook states and proves all the major theorems of many-valued propositional logic and provides the reader with the most recent developments and trends, including applications to adaptive error-correcting binary search.
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9780883855157 | Mathematical Assn of Amer, June 1, 1994, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Do you expect to find articles about mathematics in your daily newspaper?
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9780792345701 | Kluwer Academic Pub, June 1, 1997, cover price $227.00 | About this edition: Since Plato, there have been many interpretations of the ideas of analysis and synthesis, which are related to mathematical thought.
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9789060320365 | John Benjamins Pub Co, December 1, 1989, cover price $188.00
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9780674040977 | Harvard Univ Pr, November 20, 1998, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: This book analyzes the different ways mathematics is applicable in the physical sciences, and presents a startling thesis - the success of mathematical physics appears to assign the human mind a special place in the cosmos.
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9780674009707 | Reprint edition (Harvard Univ Pr, September 30, 2002), cover price $28.00 | About this edition: This book analyzes the different ways mathematics is applicable in the physical sciences, and presents a startling thesis--the success of mathematical physics appears to assign the human mind a special place in the cosmos.
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9781402002267 | Kluwer Academic Pub, March 1, 2002, cover price $189.00 | About this edition: Imre Lakatos (1922--1974) was one of the protagonists in shaping the "new philosophy of science".
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Product Description: This text explores the role which the mathematical sciences played in Aristotle's philosophical thought, in particular metaphysics and epistemology. It also thematizes the aporetic method by means of which Aristotle deals with philosophical questions about the foundations of mathematics...read more
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9789004101593 | Brill Academic Pub, June 1, 1995, cover price $322.00 | About this edition: This text explores the role which the mathematical sciences played in Aristotle's philosophical thought, in particular metaphysics and epistemology.
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Product Description: Conceived by Johan van Benthem and Yde Venema, arrow logic started as an attempt to give a general account of the logic of transitions. The generality of the approach provided a wide application area ranging from philosophy to computer science...read more
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9781575860251 | Stanford Univ Center for the Study, June 1, 1996, cover price $64.95 | About this edition: Conceived by Johan van Benthem and Yde Venema, arrow logic started as an attempt to give a general account of the logic of transitions.
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9781575860244 | Stanford Univ Center for the Study, June 1, 1996, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Conceived by Johan van Benthem and Yde Venema, arrow logic started as an attempt to give a general account of the logic of transitions.
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9780195147438 | Oxford Univ Pr, April 3, 2003, cover price $28.00 | About this edition: Traces the development of mathematical thinking and describes the characteristics of the 'republic of numbers' in terms of humankind's fascination with, and growing knowledge of, infinity.
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9781568811734 | 2nd rev edition (A K Peters Ltd, November 1, 2003), cover price $35.00 | About this edition: In addition to the standard results of Godel and others on incompleteness, (non-) finite axiomability and interpretability, this book contains a thorough treatment of partial conservativity and degress of interpretability.
9783540632139 | Springer Verlag, July 1, 1997, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: Lecture Notes in Logic 10 is concerned almost exclusively with properties that are common to all sufficiently strong, axiomatizable theories.
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9780792340102 | Kluwer Academic Pub, June 1, 1996, cover price $149.00 | About this edition: Two decades ago, Boyer and Moore built one of the first automated theorem provers that was capable of proofs by mathematical induction.
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9780813520940 | Rutgers Univ Pr, April 1, 1994, cover price $22.00
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9780521572231 | Cambridge Univ Pr, October 1, 1996, cover price $60.99 | About this edition: This introduction to the basic ideas of structural proof theory contains a thorough discussion and comparison of various types of formalization of first-order logic.
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9780521779111 | 2 sub edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, September 1, 2000), cover price $43.00 | About this edition: This introduction to the basic ideas of structural proof theory contains a thorough discussion and comparison of various types of first-order logic formalization.
9780521784528 | Cambridge Univ Pr, August 1, 2000, cover price $16.95
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9780060169398 | Harpercollins, August 1, 1994, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Describes the mathematical bases of life, including consistent patterns of numbers and geometric figures that are found in physics, mythology, philosophy, and religion, and art
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9780060926717 | Perennial, November 1, 1995, cover price $18.99 | About this edition: The Universe May Be a Mystery,But It's No SecretMichael Schneider leads us on a spectacular, lavishly illustrated journey along the numbers one through ten to explore the mathematical principles made visible in flowers, shells, crystals, plants, and the human body, expressed in the symbolic language of folk sayings and fairy tales, myth and religion, art and architecture.
9789990051650 | Harpercollins, November 1, 1995, cover price $0.02
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9780631192688 | Blackwell Pub, August 1, 1996, cover price $49.95 | About this edition: This volume contains ten original essays discussing Benacerrafian themes within and outside the philosophy of mathematics and a new essay "What mathematical truth could not be" by Benacerraf himself.
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9780226398976 | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 15, 1993, cover price $86.00 | About this edition: In this first modern, critical assessment of the place of mathematics in Berkeley's philosophy and Berkeley's place in the history of mathematics, Douglas M.
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9780226398983 | Univ of Chicago Pr, September 1, 1993, cover price $29.00 | About this edition: In this first modern, critical assessment of the place of mathematics in Berkeley's philosophy and Berkeley's place in the history of mathematics, Douglas M.
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9780226199948 | Univ of Chicago Pr, October 1, 2006, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Optimists believe this is the best of all possible worlds.
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9780226199955 | Reprint edition (Univ of Chicago Pr, October 31, 2007), cover price $14.00 | About this edition: Optimists believe this is the best of all possible worlds.
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9783631479001 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, January 1, 1995, cover price $42.95
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