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  • Inquisitive Logic

    Consequence and Inference in the Realm of Questions

    Series Book 60 - Trends in Logic
    This open access book makes a case for extending logic beyond its traditional boundaries, to encompass not only statements but also also questions. The motivations for this extension are examined in detail. It is shown that important notions, including logical answerhood and dependency, emerge as facets of the fundamental notion of entailment once logic is extended to questions, and can therefore ... Read more

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  • De sphaera of Johannes de Sacrobosco in the Early Modern Period

    The Authors of the Commentaries

    Edited by Matteo Valleriani ...
    This open access book explores commentaries on an influential text of pre-Copernican astronomy in Europe. It features essays that take a close look at key intellectuals and how they engaged with the main ideas of this qualitative introduction to geocentric cosmology.Johannes de Sacrobosco compiled his Tractatus de sphaera during the thirteenth century in the frame of his teaching activities at the ... Read more

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  • A Prodigy of Universal Genius: Robert Leslie Ellis, 1817-1859

    Edited by Lukas M. Verburgt ...
    Series Book 55 - Studies in History and Philosophy of Science
    This open access book brings together for the first time all aspects of the tragic life and fascinating work of the polymath Robert Leslie Ellis (1817–1859), placing him at the heart of early-Victorian intellectual culture.Written by a diverse team of experts, the chapters in the book’s first part contain in-depth examinations of, among other things, Ellis’s family, education, Bacon scholarship ... Read more

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  • European Traditions in Didactics of Mathematics

    Series series ICME-13 Monographs
    This open access book discusses several didactic traditions in mathematics education in countries across Europe, including France, the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, the Czech and Slovakian Republics, and the Scandinavian states. It shows that while they all share common features both in the practice of learning and teaching at school and in research and development, they each have special features ... Read more

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  • Dreamer at the End of the Universe: One Life in Two Worlds

    Together with My Cousin & Me: And Other Animals plus Wolves: Ryders in the Whirlwind, this book comprises a trilogy, I call The Land. They tell the epic story of four generations of a Celtic family battling the elements and the animals to scrape a living from a land with no fat and little lean. Ours was a wilderness farm in Central Ontario populated by animals, insects, and rocks. The early ... Read more

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  • Elusive Phenomena, Unwieldy Things

    Historical Perspectives on Experimental Control

    Series Book 71 - Archimedes
    This open access book provides a historical treatment of scientific control in experimentation in the longue durée. The introduction distinguishes four related strands in the history of experimental control: the development of practices to stabilize experimental conditions; the career of the comparative design; the unfolding of methodological discussions about control practices and designs; and ... Read more

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  • The Mathematical Imagination

    On the Origins and Promise of Critical Theory

    This book offers an archeology of the undeveloped potential of mathematics for critical theory. As Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno first conceived of the critical project in the 1930s, critical theory steadfastly opposed the mathematization of thought. Mathematics flattened thought into a dangerous positivism that led reason to the barbarism of World War II. The Mathematical Imagination ... Read more

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  • Model and Mathematics: From the 19th to the 21st Century

    Series series Trends in the History of Science
    This open access book collects the historical and medial perspectives of a systematic and epistemological analysis of the complicated, multifaceted relationship between model and mathematics, ranging from, for example, the physical mathematical models of the 19th century to the simulation and digital modelling of the 21st century. The aim of this anthology is to showcase the status of the ... Read more

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  • The Nature of Mathematics Given Physicalism

    This project aims to explore the nature of mathematics given a physicalist ontology. In particular, it seeks to explore whether and in what way mathematics can be accommodated within, and as nothing over and above, the physical world. The project takes point of departure in a physicalist account of the nature of mathematics presented in three articles by László Szabó, and proceeds to discuss the ... Read more

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  • The Legacy of Felix Klein

    Series series ICME-13 Monographs
    This open access book provides an overview of Felix Klein’s ideas, highlighting developments in university teaching and school mathematics related to Klein’s thoughts, stemming from the last century. It discusses the meaning, importance and the legacy of Klein’s ideas today and in the future, within an international, global context. Presenting extended versions of the talks at the Thematic ... Read more

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  • Advances in Proof-Theoretic Semantics

    Series Book 43 - Trends in Logic
    This volume is the first ever collection devoted to the field of proof-theoretic semantics. Contributions address topics including the systematics of introduction and elimination rules and proofs of normalization, the categorial characterization of deductions, the relation between Heyting's and Gentzen's approaches to meaning, knowability paradoxes, proof-theoretic foundations of set theory, ... Read more

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  • Mindkind: Math & Physics for the New Millennium

    The soul of Mindkind is dedicated to the proposition that humans are stranded here on Earth until such time as we, or our descendants, achieve the ability to live in peace and become strong enough to break out of the eggshell of ignorance that surrounds us.Mindkind provides some simple tools to shape and measure our universe, and it supplies a vision of a bright and peaceful future. It opens ... Read more

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  • Historische, logische und individuelle Genese der Trigonometrie aus didaktischer Sicht

    Series Book 10 - Bielefelder Schriften zur Didaktik der Mathematik
    In diesem Open-Access-Buch führt Valentin Katter eine umfassende didaktisch orientierte Sachanalyse unter historisch-, logisch-, und individualgenetischen Gesichtspunkten durch, mit der es ihm möglich ist, systematisch sechs Grundvorstellungen zum Sinusbegriff zu identifizieren. Anhand detaillierter Videoanalysen zeigt der Autor anschließend, wie diese Grundvorstellungen genutzt werden können, um ... Read more

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  • Build a Mathematical Mind - Even If You Think You Can't Have One

    Would you like to be a proficient mathematician… without using numbers?There is so much more to math than geometry and calculus! It is present in almost every life aspect, from improving your communication skills to how to fit your luggage into your car.Did you always hate math because you couldn't understand complex formulas?Don't let a few equations or a bad teacher deter you from building a ... Read more

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  • The Sand Reckoner

    by Archimedes ...
    Archimedes of Syracuse (c. 287 BC c. 212 BC) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. Among his advances in physics are the foundations of hydrostatics, statics and an explanation of the principle of the lever. He is credited with designing ... Read more

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  • Mysticism And Logic And Other Essays

    Bertrand Russell released a collection of articles titled "Mysticism and Logic and Other Essays" in 1917. The pieces discuss a variety of subjects, including the essence of truth, the boundaries of knowledge, and the interaction between science and religion. In the first article, "Mysticism and Logic," the distinctions between mystical and scientific modes of thought are explored. Russell contends ... Read more

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  • L'Esprit de l'enseignement scientifique

    by Paul Langevin ...
    On a, par l'introduction des sciences physiques dans l'enseignement secondaire, poursuivi un double but : but éducatif et but utilitaire. On a considéré comme profitable au développement intellectuel l'examen des méthodes et des résultats de la recherche expérimentale, du travail de l'esprit pour s'assimiler progressivement la réalité. A côté de ce point de vue extérieur et critique, les besoins ... Read more

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  • Restitution of the Two Books on Plane Loci of Apollonius of Perga together with On Spheric Contacts by Pierre de Fermat (1601-1665)

    Pierre de Fermat, the famous French Renaissance mathematician who gave us Fermat's Last Theorem, left no mathematical records so far as the English speaking world is concerned. This is because he wrote primarily in Latin. Here for the first time are some of his early works restoring the lost geometry treatise of Apollonius of Perga as well as Fermat's own expansion of plane loci into the third ... Read more

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  • Cunoașterea Științifică, Volumul 2, Numărul 3, Septembrie 2023

    Revista Cunoașterea Științifică este o publicație trimestrială din domeniile științei și filosofiei, și domenii conexe de studiu și practică.Cuprins:EDITORIALȘtiința schimbărilor climatice, de Nicolae SfetcuȘTIINȚE NATURALEInteractions between the brain, the biofields, and the physical, de Adrian Klein și Robert Neil BoydThe Psycho-Neural Connectivity, de Adrian KleinȘTIINȚE SOCIALESchool dropout ... Read more

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  • On the Quest for Computable Knowledge

    Wolfram discusses the history of computation from its earliest beginnings to current applications and the emergence of computable knowledge. Notable figures include: Pythagoras, Archimedes, Isaac Newton, Galileo, Gottfried Leibniz, Carl Linnaeus, John von Neumann, and many others. ... Read more

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  • The Great Mathematicians

    Unravelling the Mysteries of the Universe

    Why did Florence Nightingale introduce pie charts? How did Lewis Carroll regard Pythagoras? Who learned calculus from her nursery wallpaper?Spanning from the ancient world to the modern age, The Great Mathematicians tells fascinating and unusual tales of the men and women who transformed mathematics. We meet the mathematician who knew eight languages by the time he was 11, the one who was sent to ... Read more

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  • The Infinity Delusion

    by James R Meyer ...
    If Richard Dawkins had decided to write a book about irrational beliefs in mathematics this is the book that he would have written. This is a book that is both controversial and illuminating and which forces us to take a fresh look at what we believe and why we believe it.The book asks why people might believe that numbers ‘exist’, rather than simply being a concept of our minds? In particular, ... Read more

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  • How Math Explains the World

    A Guide to the Power of Numbers, from Car Repair to Modern Physics

    “Explores the application of math to problem solving in the everyday. . . . [W]ill appeal to both casual and serious fans of math or physics.” —Publishers WeeklyIn How Math Explains the World, mathematician Stein reveals how seemingly arcane mathematical investigations and discoveries have led to bigger, more world-shaking insights into the nature of our world. In the four main sections of the ... Read more

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  • O Vegetarismo e a Moralidade das raças

    O Vegetarismo e a Moralidade das raças é considerado por muitos como a mais importante obra desse grande autor português que foi uma das vozes defensoras do vegetarismo em sua época. Uma leitura indispensável. SOBRE O AUTOR: Jaime de Magalhães Lima (15 de Outubro de 1859 - 26 de Fevereiro de 1936). Frequentou a Universidade de Coimbra e se licenciou em Direito no ano de 1880. Era um defensor dos ... Read more

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