e-books in Philosophy of Mathematics category
Mathematical Philosophy: A Study of Fate and Freedomby Cassius Jackson Keyser - E.P. Dutton & company , 1922
Though the course is designed primarily for students whose major interest is in Philosophy, the lectures may be grateful to a wider circle of readers who desire a fair understanding of great mathematical ideas accessible to all educated laymen.
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Lectures on the Philosophy of Mathematicsby James Byrnie Shaw - Open Court Pub. Co , 1918
The author delivered a course of lectures to widen the field in the way of making it intelligible to all students of fair mathematical knowledge, which could be accomplished best by considering mathematics constantly in its historical development.
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The Philosophy of Mathematicsby Auguste Comte - Harper & brothers , 1851
The book presents a map of the wide region of mathematical science -- a bird's-eye view of its features, and of the true bearings and relations of all its parts. Auguste Comte was the first philosopher of science in the modern sense of the term.
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Aesthetics for the Working Mathematicianby Jonathan M. Borwein - DocServer , 2001
Most research mathematicians neither think deeply about nor are terribly concerned about either pedagogy or the philosophy of mathematics. Nonetheless, as I hope to indicate, aesthetic notions have always permeated (pure and applied) mathematics.
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Introduction to Mathematical Philosophyby Bertrand Russell - University of Massachusetts Amherst , 2009
A very accessible mathematical classic. It sets forth in elementary form the logical definition of number, the analysis of the notion of order, the modern doctrine of the infinite, and the theory of descriptions and classes as symbolic fictions.
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A Philosophical Essay on Probabilitiesby Pierre Simon Laplace - Chapman & Hall , 1902
Classic book on probability theory. It demonstrates, without the use of higher mathematics, the application of probability to games of chance, physics, reliability of witnesses, astronomy, insurance, democratic government, and many other areas.
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The Philosophy of Mathematicsby Albert Taylor Bledsoe - J.B. Lippincott & Co , 1868
The text covers first principles of the infinitesimal method, the method of indivisibles, solution of the mystery of Cavalieri's method, the method of Descartes, or analytical geometry, the method of Leibnitz, the method of Newton.
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