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By exploring common themes in the lives and works of logician kurt gödel, artist m see oxfam website for delivery information read moreescher, and composer johann sebastian bach, the book expounds concepts fundamental to mathematics, symmetry, and intelligenceoxfam shop dumfries gödel, escher, bach: an eternal golden braid, also known as geb, is a book by douglas hofstadter
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Buyer to collectmay be able to deliver if local or post at an extra chargebook in very good conditionan interesting, enlightening read
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Publisher: basic books; new ed edition (15 janwe will do our best to turn any less than satisfactory experience into a positive onecommunication is key to helping us give you the best experiencepaperback: 777 pages
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Palgrave macmillan paperback with a protective plastic cover around it, is in excellent conditionthis book traces the history of the problem, from its origins to its contemporary treatmentno internal marks and good bindingsee oxfam website for delivery information read morethrough the considerations of themes in the philosophy of language, ontology, and the philosophy of science, the book aims at offering an historically-informed introduction to the philosophy of mathematics, approached through the lenses of its most fundamental problemoxfam books & music totnes what is mathematics about? and if it is about some sort of mathematical reality, how can we have access to it? this is the problem raised by plato, which still today is the subject of lively philosophical disputesthe title page and publishing information page have been torn out from the beginning of the bookit discusses the answers given by aristotle, proclus and kant, through frege's and russell's versions of logicism, hilbert's formalism, gödel's platonism, up to the the current debate on benacerraf's dilemma and the indispensability argument
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His most famous work of philosophy contains a chapter on serial killersthis killer, clearly, has read itmrs eagleton is murdered in her wheelchairyet barely has he greeted his elderly landlady - and her rather luscious granddaughter - when he is bidding her a posthumous farewelland that he&39;s an intellectual megalomaniacsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreand the second murder, of an elderly hospital patient, confirms that his methods of killing are deliberately designed to appeal to mathematiciansmurder, however, is notthe only clue to the crime is a cryptic symbol and the words &39;the first in the series&39it&39;s not much to go on, but it&39;s enough to appeal to arthur seldom, one of the leading minds in logicoxfam shop clitheroe using rules and axioms, there will always be some propositions that can& 39;t be proved either true or falsebut can this apply to murder?godel&39;s theorem of incompleteness is familiar territory to the young south american mathematician who arrives in oxford
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A metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of lewis carroll, an illustrated examination of the nature of human thought processessmall inscription at frontsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreoxfam shop kendal first edition hardback with dust jacket winner of the pulitzer prize for general non-fictionjacket with shelf wear top and bottom and slightly faded spinebook with brown linen boards with aged edges, very clean and bright within
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Oxfam bookshop leeds 117ppsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreexcellent condition with slight sunning to page edges, some staining and discoloration to boards, fading to spine and slight wear to cornerstwo lines of writing to inside back board
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