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Pirner, Hans J |
The Unknown as an Engine for Science |
I08422 |
2015 |
eBook |
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12 |
Pykacz, Jaros??aw |
Quantum Physics, Fuzzy Sets and Logic |
I07709 |
2015 |
eBook |
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13 |
Heller, Michael |
Ultimate Explanations of the Universe |
I07381 |
2009 |
eBook |
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14 |
Rosenberg, Ivo G |
Algebras and Orders |
I05135 |
1993 |
eBook |
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15 |
Boccara, N |
Cellular Automata and Cooperative Systems |
I04350 |
1993 |
eBook |
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16 |
Garola, Claudio |
The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics |
I04325 |
1995 |
eBook |
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17 |
Jones, Andr?? |
Fuzzy Sets Theory and Applications |
I04166 |
1986 |
eBook |
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Gaylord, Richard J |
Modeling Nature |
I02896 |
1996 |
eBook |
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19 |
Peitgen, H.-O |
Newton???s Method and Dynamical Systems |
I02075 |
1989 |
eBook |
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20 |
Dietrich, Volker |
Clifford Algebras and Their Application in Mathematical Physics |
I00380 |
1998 |
eBook |
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Title | The Unknown as an Engine for Science : An Essay on the Definite and the Indefinite |
Author(s) | Pirner, Hans J |
Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2015. |
Description | XVII, 146 p. 23 illus : online resource |
Abstract Note | This book explores the limits of our knowledge. The author shows how uncertainty and indefiniteness not only define the borders confining our understanding, but how they feed into the process of discovery and help to push back these borders. Starting with physics the author collects examples from economics, neurophysiology, history, ecology and philosophy. The first part shows how information helps to reduce indefiniteness. Understanding rests on our ability to find the right context, in which we localize a problem as a point in a network of connections. New elements must be combined with the old parts of the existing complex knowledge system, in order to profit maximally from the information. An attempt is made to quantify the value of information by its ability to reduce indefiniteness. The second part explains how to handle indefiniteness with methods from fuzzy logic, decision theory, hermeneutics and semiotics. It is not sufficient that the new element appears in an experiment, one also has to find a theoretical reason for its existence. Indefiniteness becomes an engine of science, which gives rise to new ideas. |
ISBN,Price | 9783319185095 |
Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
4. MATHEMATICAL LOGIC
5. Mathematical Logic and Foundations
6. Philosophy and science
7. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
8. PHYSICS
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Title | Ultimate Explanations of the Universe |
Author(s) | Heller, Michael |
Publication | Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2009. |
Description | XII, 216 p : online resource |
Abstract Note | We humans are collectively driven by a powerful - yet not fully explained - instinct to understand. We would like to see everything established, proven, laid bare. The more important an issue, the more we desire to see it clarified, stripped of all secrets, all shades of gray. What could be more important than to understand the Universe and ourselves as a part of it? To find a window onto our origin and our destiny? This book examines how far our modern cosmological theories - with their sometimes audacious models, such as inflation, cyclic histories, quantum creation, parallel universes - can take us towards answering these questions. Can such theories lead us to ultimate truths, leaving nothing unexplained? Last, but not least, Heller addresses the thorny problem of why and whether we should expect to find theories with all-encompassing explicative power |
ISBN,Price | 9783642021039 |
Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
3. ASTROPHYSICS
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. EPISTEMOLOGY
7. MATHEMATICAL LOGIC
8. Mathematical Logic and Foundations
9. METAPHYSICS
10. Popular Science, general
11. Popular works
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Title | Algebras and Orders |
Author(s) | Rosenberg, Ivo G;Sabidussi, Gert |
Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1993. |
Description | XVIII, 558 p : online resource |
Abstract Note | In the summer of 1991 the Department of Mathematics and Statistics of the Universite de Montreal was fortunate to host the NATO Advanced Study Institute "Algebras and Orders" as its 30th Seminaire de mathematiques superieures (SMS), a summer school with a long tradition and well-established reputation. This book contains the contributions of the invited speakers. Universal algebra- which established itself only in the 1930's- grew from traditional algebra (e.g., groups, modules, rings and lattices) and logic (e.g., propositional calculus, model theory and the theory of relations). It started by extending results from these fields but by now it is a well-established and dynamic discipline in its own right. One of the objectives of the ASI was to cover a broad spectrum of topics in this field, and to put in evidence the natural links to, and interactions with, boolean algebra, lattice theory, topology, graphs, relations, automata, theoretical computer science and (partial) orders. The theory of orders is a relatively young and vigorous discipline sharing certain topics as well as many researchers and meetings with universal algebra and lattice theory. W. Taylor surveyed the abstract clone theory which formalizes the process of compos?? ing operations (i.e., the formation of term operations) of an algebra as a special category with countably many objects, and leading naturally to the interpretation and equivalence of varieties |
ISBN,Price | 9789401706971 |
Keyword(s) | 1. ALGEBRA
2. Computer science???Mathematics
3. Discrete Mathematics in Computer Science
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. MATHEMATICAL LOGIC
7. Mathematical Logic and Foundations
8. NUMBER THEORY
9. Order, Lattices, Ordered Algebraic Structures
10. Ordered algebraic structures
11. TOPOLOGY
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Title | The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics : Historical Analysis and Open Questions |
Author(s) | Garola, Claudio;Rossi, Arcangelo |
Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1995. |
Description | XIX, 452 p : online resource |
Abstract Note | In The Foundations of Quantum Mechanics - Historical Analysis and Open Questions, leading Italian researchers involved in different aspects of the foundations and history of quantum mechanics are brought together in an interdisciplinary debate. The book therefore presents an invaluable overview of the state of Italian work in the field at this moment, and of the open problems that still exist in the foundations of the theory. Audience: Physicists, logicians, mathematicians and epistemologists whose research concerns the historical analysis of quantum mechanics |
ISBN,Price | 9789401100298 |
Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. Elementary particles (Physics)
4. Elementary Particles, Quantum Field Theory
5. EPISTEMOLOGY
6. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
7. MATHEMATICAL LOGIC
8. Mathematical Logic and Foundations
9. PHYSICS
10. PROBABILITIES
11. Probability Theory and Stochastic Processes
12. QUANTUM FIELD THEORY
13. QUANTUM PHYSICS
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Title | Fuzzy Sets Theory and Applications |
Author(s) | Jones, Andr??;Kaufmann, Arnold;Zimmermann, Hans-J??rgen |
Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1986. |
Description | XII, 403 p : online resource |
Abstract Note | Problems in decision making and in other areas such as pattern recogni?? tion, control, structural engineering etc. involve numerous aspects of uncertainty. Additional vagueness is introduced as models become more complex but not necessarily more meaningful by the added details. During the last two decades one has become more and more aware of the fact that not all this uncertainty is of stochastic (random) cha?? racter and that, therefore, it can not be modelled appropriately by probability theory. This becomes the more obvious the more we want to represent formally human knowledge. As far as uncertain data are concerned, we have neither instru?? ments nor reasoning at our disposal as well defined and unquestionable as those used in the probability theory. This almost infallible do?? main is the result of a tremendous work by the whole scientific world. But when measures are dubious, bad or no longer possible and when we really have to make use of the richness of human reasoning in its variety, then the theories dealing with the treatment of uncertainty, some quite new and other ones older, provide the required complement, and fill in the gap left in the field of knowledge representation. Nowadays, various theories are widely used: fuzzy sets, belief function, the convenient associations between probability and fuzzines~ etc ????????? We are more and more in need of a wide range of instruments and theories to build models that are more and more adapted to the most complex systems |
ISBN,Price | 9789400946828 |
Keyword(s) | 1. EBOOK
2. EBOOK - SPRINGER
3. MATHEMATICAL LOGIC
4. Mathematical Logic and Foundations
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Title | Modeling Nature : Cellular Automata Simulations with Mathematica?? |
Author(s) | Gaylord, Richard J;Nishidate, Kazume |
Publication | New York, NY, Springer New York, 1996. |
Description | XVIII, 260 p. 82 illus : online resource |
Abstract Note | This is the first volume in a suite of short, inexpensive, paperbound volumes intended for student usage as textbooks, or course supplements, and for purchase as single-copy reference works for professionals in specific disciplines, and, in some cases, for interdisciplinary use. This title focuses on cellular automata simulations while using Mathematica, thus its audience is a generally broad one, although physicists, life scientists and engineers will find this title to be of particular interest. Those familiar with Gaylord's previous book, coauthored with Paul Wellin, "Computer Simulations with Mathematica - Explorations in Complex Biological and Physical Systems", also published by TELOS, will find this new title to be an in-depth extension of some topics dealt with in that book. Modeling Nature: Cellular Automata Simulations with Mathematica, however, contains simulations not found in the Gaylord-Wellin volume. This book will have a DOS-diskette packaged with it, enabling cross-platform access to the code. These data files will also be made accessible online via the Internet at telospub.com FTP and WWW sites |
ISBN,Price | 9781468494051 |
Keyword(s) | 1. ALGEBRA
2. ANALYSIS
3. Analysis (Mathematics)
4. Chemistry, Physical and theoretical
5. COMPUTER SIMULATION
6. EBOOK
7. EBOOK - SPRINGER
8. MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS
9. MATHEMATICAL LOGIC
10. Mathematical Logic and Foundations
11. MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS
12. Simulation and Modeling
13. Theoretical and Computational Chemistry
14. Theoretical, Mathematical and Computational Physics
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Title | Clifford Algebras and Their Application in Mathematical Physics : Aachen 1996 |
Author(s) | Dietrich, Volker;Habetha, Klaus;Jank, Gerhard |
Publication | Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands, 1998. |
Description | XXXII, 447 p : online resource |
Abstract Note | Clifford Algebras continues to be a fast-growing discipline, with ever-increasing applications in many scientific fields. This volume contains the lectures given at the Fourth Conference on Clifford Algebras and their Applications in Mathematical Physics, held at RWTH Aachen in May 1996. The papers represent an excellent survey of the newest developments around Clifford Analysis and its applications to theoretical physics. Audience: This book should appeal to physicists and mathematicians working in areas involving functions of complex variables, associative rings and algebras, integral transforms, operational calculus, partial differential equations, and the mathematics of physics |
ISBN,Price | 9789401150361 |
Keyword(s) | 1. Associative rings
2. Associative Rings and Algebras
3. EBOOK
4. EBOOK - SPRINGER
5. Functions of a Complex Variable
6. FUNCTIONS OF COMPLEX VARIABLES
7. INTEGRAL TRANSFORMS
8. Integral Transforms, Operational Calculus
9. MATHEMATICAL LOGIC
10. Mathematical Logic and Foundations
11. Operational calculus
12. PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS
13. Rings (Algebra)
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