Tools to make hard problems easier to solve.
Brief Contents -- Preface -- Values for Backs of Envelopes -- Part I: Organizing Complexity -- 1 Divide and conquer -- 2 Abstraction -- Part II: Discarding Complexity Without Losing Information -- 3 Symmetry and Conservation -- 4 Proportional Reasoning -- 5 Dimensions -- Part II…
Tools to make hard problems easier to solve.
This volume traces the development of Aristotle's hypothetical syllogistic through antiquity, and shows for the first time how it later became misidentified with the logic of the rival Stoic school. By charting the origins of this error, the book illuminates elements of Aristote…
"This volume traces the development of Aristotle's hypothetical syllogistic through antiquity, and shows for the first time how it later became misidentified with the logic of the rival Stoic school. By charting the origins of this error, the book illuminates elements of Aristot…