"Et moi,.• si j'avait su comment en revenir. One service mathematics has rendered the je n'y serais poin t aile.' human race. It has put common sense back Jules Verne where it belongs, on the topmost shelf next to the dusty canister labelled 'discarded non- The series is divergent; therefore we may be sense'. able to do something with it. Eric T. Bell O. H ea viside Mathematics is a tool for thought. A highly necessary tool in a world where both feedback and non Iinearities abound. Similarly, all kinds of parts of mathematics serve as tools for other parts and for other sciences. Applying a simple rewriting rule to the quote on the right above one finds such statements as: 'One service. topology has rendered mathematical physics.': 'One service logic has rendered com puter science.'; 'One service category theory has rendered mathematics.'. All arguably true. And all statements obtainable this way form part of the raison d 'e1:re of this series.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780792314752
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-7923-1475-2
- Verlag: Springer Netherlands
- Erscheinungstermin: 31.10.1991
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1991
- Serie: Mathematics and its Applications
- Produktform: Gebunden
- Gewicht: 1150 g
- Seiten: 232
- Format (B x H x T): 160 x 241 x 18 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt