Richard L Epstein

Reasoning in Science and Mathematics

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This series of books is meant to present the fundamentals of reasoning well in a clear manner accessible to both scholars and students. The body of each essay gives the main development of the subject, while the footnotes and appendices place the research within a larger scholarly context. The topic of this volume is the nature and evaluation of reasoning in science and mathematics. Science and mathematics can both be understood as proceeding by a method of abstraction from experience. Mathematics is distinguished from other sciences only in its greater abstraction and its demand for necessity in its inferences. That methodology of abstraction is the main focus here. The study of these subjects is not just of academic interest. First comes clear thinking, then comes clear research and clear writing. The essays: ¿ Background ¿ Models and Theories ¿ Experiments ¿ Mathematics as the Art of Abstraction

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Advanced Reasoning Forum
• Seitenzahl: 134
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 179g
• ISBN-13: 9780983452126
• ISBN-10: 0983452121
• Artikelnr.: 35063295

Autorenporträt

Richard L. Epstein is the author of Computability (with Walter Carnielli), the series The Semantic Foundations of Logic (Propositional Logics, Predicate Logic, Classical Mathematical Logic), the series Logic as the Art of Reasoning Well, and this current series Logic, Language, and the World (An Introduction to Formal Logic, The Internal Structure of Predicates and Names). He is currently the Head of the Advanced Reasoning Forum.

Inhaltsangabe

Background: Claims, Inferences, Arguments, Explanations Models and Theories Experiments Mathematics as the Art of Abstraction Bibliography Index