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Setting out from the principle that luck can be measured by the gap between reasonable expectation and eventual realization, the book... Læs mere
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This book presents a detailed description of the development of statistical theory. In the mid twentieth century, the development of mathematical statistics underwent an enduring change, due to the advent of more refined mathematical tools.
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What is mathematics about? How do we know mathematics? Is mathematical knowledge logical knowledge? And how is mathematics applied to the material world? This is an... Læs mere
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What did it mean to be reasonable in the Age of Reason? This title demonstrates how this view profoundly shaped the internal development of probability theory and defined its applications.
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Presents the history of a critical period in mathematics that includes... Læs mere
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Both in science and in practical affairs we reason by combining facts only inconclusively supported by evidence. Building on an abstract understanding of this process... Læs mere
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This much-needed monograph on the metamathematics of first-order arithmetic pays particular attention to subsystems (fragments) of Peano arithmetic and gives the reader a deeper understanding of the role of the axiom schema of induction and of the phenomenon of incompleteness.
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This handbook features essays written by both literary scholars and mathematicians that examine multiple facets of the connections between literature and mathematics.
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A remarkable account of the brilliant, troubled mathematician and philosopher Kurt Gödel. From his famous Incompleteness Theorem, which shook the... Læs mere
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The essays in this volume present a case for pluralism in mathematics and its logics, largely supporting coexistence despite apparent contradictions... Læs mere