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Category : Parks
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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American Recreation Journal
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Category : Parks
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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Category : Parks
Languages : en
Pages : 654
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How Mathematicians Think
Author: William Byers
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691145997
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
To many outsiders, mathematicians appear to think like computers, grimly grinding away with a strict formal logic and moving methodically--even algorithmically--from one black-and-white deduction to another. Yet mathematicians often describe their most important breakthroughs as creative, intuitive responses to ambiguity, contradiction, and paradox. A unique examination of this less-familiar aspect of mathematics, How Mathematicians Think reveals that mathematics is a profoundly creative activity and not just a body of formalized rules and results. Nonlogical qualities, William Byers shows, play an essential role in mathematics. Ambiguities, contradictions, and paradoxes can arise when ideas developed in different contexts come into contact. Uncertainties and conflicts do not impede but rather spur the development of mathematics. Creativity often means bringing apparently incompatible perspectives together as complementary aspects of a new, more subtle theory. The secret of mathematics is not to be found only in its logical structure. The creative dimensions of mathematical work have great implications for our notions of mathematical and scientific truth, and How Mathematicians Think provides a novel approach to many fundamental questions. Is mathematics objectively true? Is it discovered or invented? And is there such a thing as a "final" scientific theory? Ultimately, How Mathematicians Think shows that the nature of mathematical thinking can teach us a great deal about the human condition itself.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691145997
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
To many outsiders, mathematicians appear to think like computers, grimly grinding away with a strict formal logic and moving methodically--even algorithmically--from one black-and-white deduction to another. Yet mathematicians often describe their most important breakthroughs as creative, intuitive responses to ambiguity, contradiction, and paradox. A unique examination of this less-familiar aspect of mathematics, How Mathematicians Think reveals that mathematics is a profoundly creative activity and not just a body of formalized rules and results. Nonlogical qualities, William Byers shows, play an essential role in mathematics. Ambiguities, contradictions, and paradoxes can arise when ideas developed in different contexts come into contact. Uncertainties and conflicts do not impede but rather spur the development of mathematics. Creativity often means bringing apparently incompatible perspectives together as complementary aspects of a new, more subtle theory. The secret of mathematics is not to be found only in its logical structure. The creative dimensions of mathematical work have great implications for our notions of mathematical and scientific truth, and How Mathematicians Think provides a novel approach to many fundamental questions. Is mathematics objectively true? Is it discovered or invented? And is there such a thing as a "final" scientific theory? Ultimately, How Mathematicians Think shows that the nature of mathematical thinking can teach us a great deal about the human condition itself.
The Illio
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Category : College yearbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Category : College yearbooks
Languages : en
Pages : 536
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Improving the Transition
Author: Peter D. Gluckman
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ISBN: 9780477103343
Category : Teenagers
Languages : en
Pages : 307
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ISBN: 9780477103343
Category : Teenagers
Languages : en
Pages : 307
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Nursing Diagnoses 2012-14
Author: NANDA International
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470654821
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
Nursing diagnoses guide the selection of interventions that are likely to produce the desired treatment effects and are seen key to the future of evidence-based, professionally-led nursing care. This is the definitive guide to nursing diagnoses developed by the diagnosis development committee of NANDA.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 0470654821
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
Nursing diagnoses guide the selection of interventions that are likely to produce the desired treatment effects and are seen key to the future of evidence-based, professionally-led nursing care. This is the definitive guide to nursing diagnoses developed by the diagnosis development committee of NANDA.
The Marshall Plan in Action
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Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Languages : en
Pages : 104
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Thomas Kuhn
Author: Steve Fuller
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226268965
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
This work discusses whether Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was revolutionary. Steve Fuller argues that Kuhn held a profoundly conservative view of science and how one ought to study its history.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226268965
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 500
Book Description
This work discusses whether Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions was revolutionary. Steve Fuller argues that Kuhn held a profoundly conservative view of science and how one ought to study its history.
Three-Dimensional Elasticity
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Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080875416
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 495
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This volume is a thorough introduction to contemporary research in elasticity, and may be used as a working textbook at the graduate level for courses in pure or applied mathematics or in continuum mechanics. It provides a thorough description (with emphasis on the nonlinear aspects) of the two competing mathematical models of three-dimensional elasticity, together with a mathematical analysis of these models. The book is as self-contained as possible.
Publisher: Elsevier
ISBN: 0080875416
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 495
Book Description
This volume is a thorough introduction to contemporary research in elasticity, and may be used as a working textbook at the graduate level for courses in pure or applied mathematics or in continuum mechanics. It provides a thorough description (with emphasis on the nonlinear aspects) of the two competing mathematical models of three-dimensional elasticity, together with a mathematical analysis of these models. The book is as self-contained as possible.
A History of Abstract Algebra
Author: Israel Kleiner
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0817646841
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 175
Book Description
This book explores the history of abstract algebra. It shows how abstract algebra has arisen in attempting to solve some of these classical problems, providing a context from which the reader may gain a deeper appreciation of the mathematics involved.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 0817646841
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 175
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This book explores the history of abstract algebra. It shows how abstract algebra has arisen in attempting to solve some of these classical problems, providing a context from which the reader may gain a deeper appreciation of the mathematics involved.
The Michiganensian
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Category : College student annuals
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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Category : College student annuals
Languages : en
Pages : 710
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