Serres, The Five Senses
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Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica is a work in three books by Isaac Newton, in Latin, first published 5 July 1687. After annotating and ...
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In 2000, Keith Devlin set out to research the life and legacy of the medieval mathematician Leonardo of Pisa, popularly known as Fibonacci, ...
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First English translation of Einstein’s theory of relativity. In this work Einstein intended, as far as possible, to give an exact insight into ...
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Before the mid-seventeenth century, scholars generally agreed that it was impossible to predict something by calculating mathematical outcomes. One simply could not put ...
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This book introduces the reader to Serres’ unique manner of ‘doing philosophy’ that can be traced throughout his entire oeuvre: namely as a ...
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A classic source for exploring the connections between information theory and physics, this text is geared toward upper-level undergraduates and graduate students. The ...
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In Number and Numbers Alain Badiou offers an philosophically penetrating account with a powerful political subtext of the attempts that have been made ...
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In Mathematics of the Transcendental, Alain Badiou painstakingly works through the pertinent aspects of Category Theory, demonstrating their internal logic and veracity, their ...
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Why bother to praise mathematics when you claim, as Alain Badiou does, that philosophy is first and foremost a metaphysics of happiness, or ...
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