"Proofs play a central role in advanced mathematics and theoretical computer science, yet many students struggle the first time they take a course in which proofs play a significant role. This bestselling text's third edition helps students transition from solving problems to pr…
Ever since the beginning of the modern phenomenological movement disciplined attention has been paid to various patterns of human experi ence as they are actually lived through in the concrete. This has brought forth many attempts to tind a general philosophical position which c…
"A compelling narrative that blends a story of infinity with the tagic tale of a tormented and brilliant mathematician. From the end of the ninteenth century until his death, one of history's greatest mathematicians languished in an asylum, driven mad by an almost Faustian thirs…
Explores the ancient origins of the discovery of infinity, tells the story of nineteenth-century mathematician Georg Cantor's theories regarding the nature of infinity, and discusses the consequences of his work.
In Europe, during the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries, questions that occupied the minds of the scientists and philosophers in characterizing the universe as a whole were those which related to a concept of infinity in time and space. New theories on gravity, motion, ext…
With the meteoric rise of Aristotle in the intellectual life of thirteenth-century Europe, a series of proofs concerning the world's possible eternity took on new meaning. The recovery of various Aristotelian texts, an influx of commentaries from the Arab world, and rapid change…
