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See oxfam website for delivery information read moreby exploring common themes in the lives and works of logician kurt gödel, artist mescher, 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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May be able to deliver if local or post at an extra chargebuyer to collectan interesting, enlightening readbook in very good condition
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Publisher: basic books; new ed edition (15 janpaperback: 777 pageswe will do our best to turn any less than satisfactory experience into a positive onecommunication is key to helping us give you the best experience
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Palgrave macmillan paperback with a protective plastic cover around it, is in excellent conditionthe title page and publishing information page have been torn out from the beginning of the bookoxfam 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 disputesno internal marks and good bindingsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreit 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 argumentthis book traces the history of the problem, from its origins to its contemporary treatmentthrough 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 problem
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And the second murder, of an elderly hospital patient, confirms that his methods of killing are deliberately designed to appeal to mathematiciansthe only clue to the crime is a cryptic symbol and the words &39;the first in the series&39and that he&39;s an intellectual megalomaniacmurder, however, is notmrs eagleton is murdered in her wheelchairthis killer, clearly, has read itsee oxfam website for delivery information read moreyet barely has he greeted his elderly landlady - and her rather luscious granddaughter - when he is bidding her a posthumous farewellhis most famous work of philosophy contains a chapter on serial killersbut can this apply to murder?godel&39;s theorem of incompleteness is familiar territory to the young south american mathematician who arrives in oxfordit&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 false
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Winner of the pulitzer prize for general non-fictionsee oxfam website for delivery information read morea metaphorical fugue on minds and machines in the spirit of lewis carroll, an illustrated examination of the nature of human thought processesbook with brown linen boards with aged edges, very clean and bright withinoxfam shop kendal first edition hardback with dust jacketjacket with shelf wear top and bottom and slightly faded spinesmall inscription at front
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Excellent condition with slight sunning to page edges, some staining and discoloration to boards, fading to spine and slight wear to cornersoxfam bookshop leeds 117pptwo lines of writing to inside back boardsee oxfam website for delivery information read more
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