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  • The Turing Hypothesis

    The Complete Manuscript

    by Alan Turing ...
    Could a computer be made to think?Alan Turing's groundbreaking 1950 paper, “Computing Machinery and Intelligence” has become one of the most cited in philosophical literature. Turing was a founding father of artificial intelligence and of modern cognitive science, and was a leading early exponent of the hypothesis that the human brain is in large part a digital computing machine.He theorized that ... Read more

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  • An Illustrated Book of Bad Arguments

    Learn the Lost Art of Making Sense

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  • IQ and Aptitude Tests: Assess Your Verbal Numerical and Spatial Reasoning Skills

    Assess Your Verbal Numerical and Spatial Reasoning Skills

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  • An Introduction to Stochastic Modeling, Student Solutions Manual (e-only)

    by Mark Pinsky ...
    An Introduction to Stochastic Modeling, Student Solutions Manual (e-only) ... Read more

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  • Pre-Calculus

    by BarCharts,Inc ...
    This 4-page laminated guide includes basic principles of calculus, including: functions, coordinate geometry, exponents & logarithms, permutations & combinations, synthetic division, matrices and more. ... Read more

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  • Is There A God?

    by Richard Swinburne ...
    Is There a God? offers a powerful response to modern doubts about the existence of God. It may seem today that the answers to all fundamental questions lie in the province of science, and that the scientific advances of the twentieth century leave little room for God. Cosmologists have rolled back their theories to the moment of the Big Bang, the discovery of DNA reveals the key to life, the ... Read more

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  • 1089 and All That: A Journey into Mathematics

    A Journey into Mathematics

    by David Acheson ...
    David Acheson's extraordinary little book makes mathematics accessible to everyone. From very simple beginnings he takes us on a thrilling journey to some deep mathematical ideas. On the way, via Kepler and Newton, he explains what calculus really means, gives a brief history of pi, and even takes us to chaos theory and imaginary numbers. Every short chapter is carefully crafted to ensure that no ... Read more

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  • The Complete Book of Fun Maths

    250 Confidence-boosting Tricks, Tests and Puzzles

    by Philip Carter, Ken Russell ...
    The idea of this book is to help build confidence with maths via a series of tests and puzzles. After a gentle 'warm-up' section, the puzzles and tests get progressively more challenging over the course of the book. There is a hints section for readers who get stuck, as well as a complete set of answers for every test at the back of the book.After the 'warm-up' section, there are puzzles and tests ... Read more

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  • The Art of Philosophizing

    And Other Essays

    by Bertrand Russell ...
    Three essays on mathematics, logic, and philosophy from the Noble Prize–winning author of A History of Western Philosophy.The essays in this little volume, published here for the first time in book form, were written by Bertrand Russell during the Second World War when he was less concerned with the stormy issues of nuclear warfare and the containment of Communist aggression and more with "the art ... Read more

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    Mathematical Proof of Implausible Ideas

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  • An Experiment with Time

    by J. W. Dunne ...
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