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Presents the latest research on how reasoning with analogies, metaphors, metonymies, and images can facilitate mathematical understanding. For math education, educational psychology, and cognitive science scholars.
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Presents descriptions, explanations and examples of the Bayesian approach to statistics. This book demonstrates the utility of Bayesian methods for analyzing real-world problems in the health sciences. It considers the individual components of Bayesian analysis.
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This Element defends mathematical anti-realism against an underappreciated problem with that view-a problem having to do with modal truthmaking.
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This book is a re-assessment of the structure and reach of symmetry, by an interdisciplinary group of specialists from the arts, humanities, and sciences at Oxford University.... Læs mere
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This radical volume explores the purposes and nature of proof in a range of historical settings, overturning the view that the first mathematical... Læs mere
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In this innovative and largely self-contained textbook, Jonathan Kirby brings model theory to an undergraduate audience. The highlights of basic model theory are... Læs mere
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This book traces Descartes' groundbreaking theory of scientific explanation back to the mathematical demonstrations of Aristotelian physics, in the light of the... Læs mere
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A continuation of the authors' book Structural Proof Theory, one of the basic sources for all students and researchers on logic. Presents a way of extending the proof theory of pure logic to cover mathematical axiomatic theories and systems of philosophical logic.
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This book will appeal to readers interested in analytic philosophy and its history. Avoiding mathematical detail and locating the relevant developments in their... Læs mere
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This radical volume explores the purposes and nature of proof in a range of historical settings, overturning the view that the first mathematical... Læs mere
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This collection of specially commissioned essays by leading scholars presents research on Isaac Newton and his main philosophical interlocutors and critics. Topics... Læs mere
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The mathematician and engineer Charles Babbage (1791–1871) is best remembered for his automatic 'calculating machines', the forerunner of modern computers.... Læs mere