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“william demopoulos”

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  • On Theories

    Logical Empiricism and the Methodology of Modern Physics

    by William Demopoulos ...
    A renowned philosopher’s final work, illuminating how the logical empiricist tradition has failed to appreciate the role of actual experiments in forming its philosophy of science.The logical empiricist treatment of physics dominated twentieth-century philosophy of science. But the logical empiricist tradition, for all it accomplished, does not do justice to the way in which empirical evidence ... Read more

    $33.69 USD

  • Logicism and its Philosophical Legacy

    by William Demopoulos ...
    The idea that mathematics is reducible to logic has a long history, but it was Frege who gave logicism an articulation and defense that transformed it into a distinctive philosophical thesis with a profound influence on the development of philosophy in the twentieth century. This volume of classic, revised and newly written essays by William Demopoulos examines logicism's principal legacy for ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

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    A Proposal in Natural Philosophy

    by Roberto Mangabeira Unger, Lee Smolin ...
    Cosmology is in crisis. The more we discover, the more puzzling the universe appears to be. How and why are the laws of nature what they are? A philosopher and a physicist, world-renowned for their radical ideas in their fields, argue for a revolution. To keep cosmology scientific, we must replace the old view in which the universe is governed by immutable laws by a new one in which laws evolve. ... Read more

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  • All the Math You Missed

    (But Need to Know for Graduate School)

    by Thomas A. Garrity ...
    Beginning graduate students in mathematical sciences and related areas in physical and computer sciences and engineering are expected to be familiar with a daunting breadth of mathematics, but few have such a background. This bestselling book helps students fill in the gaps in their knowledge. Thomas A. Garrity explains the basic points and a few key results of all the most important undergraduate ... Read more

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  • Fourier Analysis

    An Introduction

    by Elias M. Stein, Rami Shakarchi ...
    This first volume, a three-part introduction to the subject, is intended for students with a beginning knowledge of mathematical analysis who are motivated to discover the ideas that shape Fourier analysis. It begins with the simple conviction that Fourier arrived at in the early nineteenth century when studying problems in the physical sciences--that an arbitrary function can be written as an ... Read more

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  • All the Mathematics You Missed

    But Need to Know for Graduate School

    by Thomas A. Garrity ...
    Beginning graduate students in mathematics and other quantitative subjects are expected to have a daunting breadth of mathematical knowledge. But few have such a background. This book will help students to see the broad outline of mathematics and to fill in the gaps in their knowledge. The author explains the basic points and a few key results of all the most important undergraduate topics in ... Read more

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  • Time and Space

    by Barry Dainton ...
    The first edition (2001) of this title quickly established itself on courses on the philosophy of time and space. This fully revised and expanded new edition sees the addition of chapters on Zeno's paradoxes, speculative contemporary developments in physics, and dynamic time, making the second edition, once again, unrivalled in its breadth of coverage. Surveying both historical debates and the ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • On Time, Causality, and the Block Universe 

    Scientific answers to our deepest questions

    by Anthony C Proctor ...
    May of us harbour deep questions on subjects such as the origin of the universe, the concepts of time and causality, the nature of consciousness and free will, the mind-body problems of philosophy, the relationship between mathematics and physics, and more. Conventional answers will usually be from fundamental physics (often deeply mathematical) or philosophy (often very abstract). This work takes ... Read more

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  • Philosophy Of Physics

    by Lawrence Sklar ...
    This book focuses on the most important questions of philosophy of physics, offering a sufficiently concise and clear treatment of the issues to lead the interested reader through the sometimes labyrinthian paths taken by the central debates. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Analysis And Mathematical Physics

    by Shaun Bullett, Tom Fearn, Frank Smith ...
    Series Book 6 - Ltcc Advanced Mathematics Series
    This is a concise reference book on analysis and mathematical physics, leading readers from a foundation to advanced level understanding of the topic. This is the perfect text for graduate or PhD mathematical-science students looking for support in topics such as distributions, Fourier transforms and microlocal analysis, C* Algebras, value distribution of meromorphic functions, noncommutative ... Read more

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  • Differential Equations

    by Viorel Barbu ...
    Series series Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
    This textbook is a comprehensive treatment of ordinary differential equations, concisely presenting basic and essential results in a rigorous manner.Including various examples from physics, mechanics, natural sciences, engineering and automatic theory, Differential Equations is a bridge between the abstract theory of differential equations and applied systems theory. Particular attention is given ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Probability And Randomness: Quantum Versus Classical

    by Andrei Yu Khrennikov ...
    Creating a rigorous mathematical theory of randomness is far from being complete, even in the classical case. Probability and Randomness: Quantum versus Classical rectifies this and introduces mathematical formalisms of classical and quantum probability and randomness with brief discussion of their interrelation and interpretational and foundational issues. The book presents the essentials of ... Read more

    $42.99 USD