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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...
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...
Crise écologique, crise des valeurs ? : défis pour l'anthropologie et la spiritualité
Livre imprimé - Bourg Dominique, Roch Philippe, White Lynn Townsend, impr. 2010
Extrait d'un colloque intitulé "Environnement et spiritualité : l'Occident doit-il se réinventer face à la crise écologique ?", Université de Lausanne, 4-6 juin 2009, C...
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 la ...
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...
