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as anywhere today, it is becoming more d- ficult to tell the truth. To be sure, our store of accurate facts is more plentiful now than it has ever been, and the minutest details of histor… Mehr…

as anywhere today, it is becoming more d- ficult to tell the truth. To be sure, our store of accurate facts is more plentiful now than it has ever been, and the minutest details of history are being thoroughly recorded. Scientists, - men and scholars vie with each other in publishing excruciatingly definitive accounts of all that happens on the natural, political and historical scenes. Unfortunately, telling the truth is not quite the same thing as reciting a rosary of facts. Jos6 Ortega y Gasset, in an adm- able lesson summarized by Antonio Machado''s three-line poem, prophetically warned us that the reason people so often lie is that they lack imagination: they don''t realize that the truth, too, is a matter of invention. Sometime, in a future that is knocking at our door, we shall have to retrain ourselves or our children to properly tell the truth. The exercise will be particularly painful in mathematics. The enrapturing discoveries of our field systematically conceal, like footprints erased in the sand, the analogical train of thought that is the authentic life of mathematics. Shocking as it may be to a conservative logician, the day will come when currently MATHEMATICS, IN vague concepts such as motivation and purpose will be made formal and accepted as constituents of a revamped logic, where they will at last be allotted the equal status they deserve, si- by-side with axioms and theorems. | Discrete Thoughts by Mark Kac Paperback | Indigo Chapters Books > Science & Nature > Math & Physics > Mathematics P10117, Mark Kac<

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Birkhäuser, Paperback, Auflage: 2nd ed. 1992, 278 Seiten, Publiziert: 2008-01-11T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.4 kg, Verkaufsrang: 3013853, History of Mathematics, History & Philosoph… Mehr…

Birkhäuser, Paperback, Auflage: 2nd ed. 1992, 278 Seiten, Publiziert: 2008-01-11T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book, 0.4 kg, Verkaufsrang: 3013853, History of Mathematics, History & Philosophy, Science, Nature & Maths, Subjects, Books, Applied Mathematics, Mathematical Logic, Mathematical Foundations, Game Theory, Optimisation, Philosophy of Physics, Popular Science, Scientific, Technical & Medical, Mathematical Theory, Format: Illustrated, Birkhäuser, 2008<

ISBN: 9780817647742

*Discrete Thoughts* - Essays on Mathematics Science and Philosophy. 2nd ed. 1992 / Taschenbuch für 90.99 € / Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Mathematik Medien > Bücher nein Buch (k… Mehr…

*Discrete Thoughts* - Essays on Mathematics Science and Philosophy. 2nd ed. 1992 / Taschenbuch für 90.99 € / Aus dem Bereich: Bücher, Wissenschaft, Mathematik Medien > Bücher nein Buch (kartoniert) Hardcover;Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik;Allgemeines, Lexika, Birkhäuser Boston<

ISBN: 9780817647742

Paperback, [PU: Birkhauser Boston Inc], Rev. and corr. ed., with the assistance of Peter Renz, Mathematics, Mathematical Foundations, Mathematical Logic, Game Theory, Applied Mathematics,… Mehr…

Paperback, [PU: Birkhauser Boston Inc], Rev. and corr. ed., with the assistance of Peter Renz, Mathematics, Mathematical Foundations, Mathematical Logic, Game Theory, Applied Mathematics, History Of Mathematics, Science: General Issues, Philosophy Of Science<