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Visual thinking in mathematics : an epistemilogical study
Livre imprimé - Giaquinto Marcus, 2007
Visual thinking - visual imagination or perception of diagrams and symbol arrays, and mental operations on them - is omnipresent in mathematics. Is this visual thinking...
Essais sur les facultés intellectuelles de l'homme : 1785
Livre imprimé - Reid Thomas, Nicolas Serge, DL 2007
Comme Hume, le philosophe écossais Thomas Reid (1710-1796) pense que la connaissance des facultés de l'âme jette de grandes clartés sur plusieurs autres branches de...
Bayesian nets and causality : philosophical and computational foundations
Livre imprimé - Williamson Jon, cop. 2005
Bayesian nets are widely used in artificial intelligence as a calculus for casual reasoning, enabling machines to make predictions, perform diagnoses, take decisions an...
Emergence and convergence : qualitative novelty and the unity of knowledge
Livre imprimé - Bunge Mario, cop. 2003
Two problems continually arise in the sciences and humanities, according to Mario Bunge: parts and wholes and the origin of novelty. In Emergence and Convergence, he wo...
Calendars and years : astronomy and time in the Ancient Near East
Livre imprimé - Steele John M., cop. 2007
Dates form the backbone of written history. But where do these dates come from? Many different calendars were used in the ancient world. Some of these calendars were ba...
Mechanistic images in geometric form : Heinrich Hertz's Principles of mechanics
Livre imprimé - Lützen Jesper, cop. 2005
This book gives an analysis of Hertz's posthumously published 'Principles of Mechanics' in its philosophical, physical and mathematical context. In a period of heated d...
