The blind spot [[electronic resource] ] : science and the crisis of uncertainty / / William Byers |
Autore | Byers William |
Edizione | [Course Book] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (334 p.) |
Disciplina | 500 |
Soggetto topico |
Science - Social aspects
Uncertainty (Information theory) |
Soggetto non controllato |
Acknowledgment (creative arts and sciences)
Algorithm Ambiguity Analogy Approximation Axiom Axiomatic system Basic research Big O notation Calculation Certainty Chaos theory Circumference Computation Concept Conjecture Consciousness Consistency Contingency (philosophy) Continuous function Continuum hypothesis Contradiction Counting David Bohm Dynamism (metaphysics) Emergence Euclidean geometry Explanation Feeling Fermat's Last Theorem Geometry Gestalt psychology Gregory Chaitin Gödel's incompleteness theorems Human behavior Human intelligence Hypothesis Ideology Inference Integer Irrational number Learning Logic Logical reasoning Mathematician Mathematics Measurement Methodology Modernity Molecule Natural number Nature Paradigm shift Paradox Participant Phenomenon Philosopher Philosophy of mathematics Philosophy of science Philosophy Platonism Prediction Principle Probability Pythagoreanism Qualitative property Quantification (science) Quantity Quantum mechanics Randomness Rational number Rationality Real number Reality Reason Reductionism Relationship between religion and science Result Science Scientific method Scientific progress Scientific theory Scientist Self-reference Set theory Special case Subatomic particle Subjectivity Suggestion Technology The Philosopher Theorem Theoretical physics Theory of everything Theory Thomas Kuhn Thought Uncertainty Universality (philosophy) Writing |
ISBN |
1-283-00150-0
9786613001504 1-4008-3815-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: The Revelation of Uncertainty -- 1. The Blind Spot -- 2. The Blind Spot Revealed -- 3. Certainty or Wonder? -- 4. A World in Crisis! -- 5. Ambiguity -- 6. Self-Reference: The Human Element in Science -- 7. The Mystery of Number -- 8. Science as the Ambiguous Search for Unity -- 9. The Still Point -- 10. Conclusion: Living in a World of Uncertainty -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- References -- Index |
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A brief welcome to the universe : a pocket-sized tour / / Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michael A. Strauss, and J. Richard Gott |
Autore | Tyson Neil deGrasse |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, New Jersey : , : Princeton University Press, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (247 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 523.1 |
Soggetto topico |
Astrophysics
Cosmology |
Soggetto non controllato |
Accelerating expansion of the universe
Accretion (astrophysics) Alpha particle Andromeda Galaxy Angular diameter Astrobiology Astrophysics Atomic nucleus Barred spiral galaxy Big Bang Calculation Chemical element Chronology of the universe Circumference Copernican principle Cosmic Background Explorer Cosmic microwave background Cosmic string Cosmogony Dark energy De Sitter space Deuterium Dimension Earth Einstein field equations Elementary particle Elliptic orbit Energy density Event horizon Exoplanet Extraterrestrial life Galactic Center Galactic year Galaxy cluster Googol Gravitational wave Gravity Hawking radiation Hubble Space Telescope Hubble's law Inflation (cosmology) Interstellar medium Irregular galaxy Jim Peebles Jupiter Kepler (spacecraft) Kuiper belt Light-year Longevity Luminosity Main sequence Measurement Metric expansion of space Milky Way Molecule Neutron star Neutron Newton's law of universal gravitation Nitrogen Nuclear fusion Nuclear reaction Observable universe Orion Nebula Photon Physicist Planck (spacecraft) Planetary habitability Planetary nebula Positron Prediction Pressure Quantity Quantum tunnelling Quasar Real Humans Red giant Result Satellite galaxy Saturn Shape of the universe Solar System Solar mass Spacecraft Spiral galaxy Star Supernova Temperature The Astrophysical Journal The Pluto Files Thermal radiation Universe Today Universe Uranus Vacuum energy Vacuum state Wavelength Weakly interacting massive particles Welcome to the Universe White dwarf Year |
ISBN | 0-691-22361-0 |
Classificazione | SCI005000SCI055000 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- A Note to the Reader -- 1 Size and Scale of the Universe -- 2 Pluto's Place in the Solar System -- 3 The Lives and Deaths of Stars -- 4 The Search for Life in the Galaxy -- 5 Our Milky Way and Its Supermassive Black Hole -- 6 Galaxies, the Expanding Universe, and the Big Bang -- 7 Inflation and the Multiverse -- 8 Our Future in the Universe -- Acknowledgments -- Index |
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Tyson Neil deGrasse
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Contributions to the Theory of Nonlinear Oscillations (AM-29), Volume II / / Solomon Lefschetz |
Autore | Lefschetz Solomon |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (128 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 531.3 |
Collana | Annals of Mathematics Studies |
Soggetto topico | Oscillations |
Soggetto non controllato |
Addition
Analytic function Approximation Arc length Asymptotic expansion Big O notation Bijection Calculation Canonical form Cartesian coordinate system Characteristic equation Characteristic exponent Circumference Clockwise Coefficient matrix Coefficient Concentric Continuous function Contradiction Coordinate system Determinant Differential equation Divisor Dynamical system Equation Existential quantification Exterior (topology) First variation Geometry Homotopy Initial condition Integer Intersection (set theory) Interval (mathematics) Isolated point Iteration Limit cycle Limit set Linear differential equation Linear equation Main diagonal Mathematician Matrix (mathematics) Matrix coefficient Monotonic function Natural number Nonlinear system Parameter Partial derivative Periodic function Phase plane Phase portrait Polar coordinate system Polynomial Projective plane Quadratic transformation Requirement Saddle point Separatrix (mathematics) Sequence Special case Square matrix Statistical hypothesis testing Structural stability Subset Suggestion Theorem Theory Three-dimensional space (mathematics) Time derivative Topology Trigonometric polynomial Uniqueness theorem Unit vector Variable (mathematics) Vector field Velocity Without loss of generality |
ISBN | 1-4008-8270-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Preface / Lefschetz, Solomon -- Contents -- I. Van der Pol's Equation for Relaxation Oscillations / Cartwright, M. L. -- II. Perturbations of Linear Systems with Constant Coefficients Possessing Periodic Solutions / Coddington, E. A. / Levinson, N. -- III. Dynamical Systems with Stable Structures / DeBaggis, H. F. -- IV. Notes on Differential Equations / Lefsehetz, Solomon -- V. A method for the Calculation of Limit Cycles by Successive Approximation / McCarthy, John -- VI. Asymptotic Expansions of Solutions of Systems of Ordinary Linear Differential Equations Containing a Parameter / Turrittin, H. L. |
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Degree of Approximation by Polynomials in the Complex Domain. (AM-9), Volume 9 / / Walter Edwin Sewell |
Autore | Sewell Walter Edwin |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (252 pages) |
Disciplina | 512.22 |
Collana | Annals of Mathematics Studies |
Soggetto topico |
Approximation theory
Polynomials |
Soggetto non controllato |
0B
Addition Antiderivative Approximation Arbitrarily large Arc (geometry) Arc length Big O notation Bijection Bounded set (topological vector space) Branch point Circumference Coefficient Complex analysis Complex number Conformal map Connected space Constant of integration Continuous function Covering space Derivative Difference "ient Differentiable function Dimension Elementary proof Equation Even and odd functions Existence theorem Existential quantification Exterior (topology) Floor and ceiling functions Fourier series Function of a real variable Geometry Green's function Harmonic function Harmonic polynomial Infimum and supremum Infinitesimal Integer Isolated point Isolated singularity Iterative method Jordan curve theorem Least squares Lebesgue integration Lemniscate Limit (mathematics) Line integral Line segment Lipschitz continuity Logarithm Mathematician Modulus of continuity Natural number Notation Open problem Orthogonal polynomials Partial derivative Periodic function Point at infinity Polynomial Rational function Real variable Rectangle Requirement Riemann sum Root of unity Second derivative Set theory Sign (mathematics) Simply connected space Special case Suggestion Summation Surface integral Taylor series Theorem Theory Trigonometric functions Trigonometry Uniform convergence Unit circle Upper and lower bounds Variable (mathematics) Weight function |
ISBN | 1-4008-8221-4 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Chapter I. Preliminaries -- Part I. Problem α -- Chapter II. Polynomial Inequalities -- Chapter III. Tchebycheff Approximation -- Chapter IV. Approximation Measured by a Line Integral -- Part II. Problem β -- Chapter V. Preliminaries -- Chapter VI. Tchebycheff Approximation -- Chapter VII. Approximation Measured by a Line Integral -- Chapter VIII. Special Configurations -- Bibliography |
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Dreams : (From Volumes 4, 8, 12, and 16 of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung) / / C. G. Jung |
Autore | Jung C. G. |
Edizione | [With a New foreword by Sonu Shamdasani] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2012] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (363 p.) |
Disciplina | 154.6/34 |
Altri autori (Persone) |
HullR. F.C
ShamdasaniSonu |
Collana | Jung Extracts |
Soggetto topico |
Dreams
Psychoanalysis |
Soggetto non controllato |
Active imagination
Allusion Ambiguity Analogy Analytical psychology Anxiety dream Archetype Bollingen Foundation Carl Jung Causality Certainty Circumference Classical element Consciousness Cowardice Criticism Cryptomnesia Deity Depersonalization Determination Dream interpretation Dream Emblem Empiricism Existence Explanation Feeling Free association (psychology) God Good and evil His Family Hypothesis Illustration Image of God Indication (medicine) Individuation Inquiry Instance (computer science) Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious Libido Literature Mahayana Mandala Medical psychology Mental disorder Mithraism Morality Mysticism Nekyia Neurosis Neuroticism Ouroboros Overreaction Paracelsus Parapsychology Personal unconscious Personality Phenomenon Philosopher Philosophy Potentiality and actuality Practical reason Precognition Prejudice Prima materia Probability Psyche (psychology) Psychiatrist Psychiatry Psychic Psychoanalysis Psychologist Psychology and Alchemy Psychology Psychotherapy Purusha Reality Reason Religion Reminiscence Result Richard Wilhelm (sinologist) Self-awareness Self-experimentation Sonu Shamdasani Stupa Suggestion Symptom Taoism The Other Hand Theory Theosophy Thought Transference Treatise Two Essays on Analytical Psychology Uncertainty Unconsciousness Understanding Writing |
ISBN |
1-283-41175-X
9786613411754 1-4008-3914-9 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- FOREWORD TO THE 2010 EDITION -- NOTE OF ACKNOWLEDGMENT -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- PART I. DREAMS AND PSYCHOANALYSIS -- PART II. DREAMS AND PSYCHIC ENERGY -- PART III. THE PRACTICAL USE OF DREAM-ANALYSIS -- PART IV. INDIVIDUAL DREAM SYMBOLISM IN RELATION TO ALCHEMY -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX |
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Lectures on Differential Equations. (AM-14), Volume 14 / / Solomon Lefschetz |
Autore | Lefschetz Solomon |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (221 pages) |
Disciplina | 517.38 |
Collana | Annals of Mathematics Studies |
Soggetto topico | Differential equations |
Soggetto non controllato |
Abscissa
Absolute value Addition Adjoint Algebraic topology Antiderivative Approximation Canonical form Cartesian coordinate system Characteristic equation Characteristic exponent Circumference Coefficient matrix Coefficient Compact space Complex number Complex plane Complex-valued function Condition index Conformal map Connected space Conservation of energy Continuous function Convex hull Coordinate system Corollary Degrees of freedom (statistics) Derivative Determinant Diagram (category theory) Differentiable function Differential equation Dimension Dissipation Eigenvalues and eigenvectors Empty set Entire function Equation Euclidean geometry Euclidean space Existence theorem Existential quantification Exterior (topology) Holomorphic function Homogeneous polynomial Inflection point Initial point Integer Intersection (set theory) Jacobian matrix and determinant Jordan curve theorem Limit point Limit set Line at infinity Linear differential equation Linear map Lipschitz continuity Lyapunov stability Mathematical physics Mathematician Matrix function Maximal set Monotonic function Nonlinear system Notation Open set Parameter Parametric equation Partial derivative Periodic function Phase space Polar coordinate system Polynomial Power series Projective geometry Projective plane Quadratic Radius of convergence Rectangle Regular representation Saddle point Separatrix (mathematics) Set theory Simple polygon Solomon Lefschetz Special case Spherical cap Stereographic projection Subset Summation Theorem Theory Topological property Toroid Two-dimensional space Uniform convergence Upper and lower bounds Variable (mathematics) Vector space Zero of a function |
ISBN | 1-4008-8194-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- CHAPTER I. SOME PRELIMINARY QUESTIONS -- CHAPTER II. DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS -- CHAPTER III. LINEAR SYSTEMS -- CHAPTER IV. CRITICAL POINTS AND PERIODIC MOTIONS QUESTIONS OF STABILITY -- CHAPTER V. TWO DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS -- CHAPTER VI. APPLICATION TO CERTAIN EQUATIONS' OF THE SECOND ORDER -- INDEX |
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Meromorphic Functions and Analytic Curves. (AM-12) / / Hermann Weyl |
Autore | Weyl Hermann |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (285 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 517.5 |
Collana | Annals of Mathematics Studies |
Soggetto topico | Functions |
Soggetto non controllato |
Algebraic curve
Algebraic equation Algebraic function Algebraic surface Analytic continuation Analytic function Arc (geometry) Argument principle Basis (linear algebra) Bernhard Riemann Betti number Big O notation Boundary value problem C-function C0 Characteristic function (probability theory) Circumference Coefficient Combination Compact Riemann surface Compact space Complex analysis Complex number Computation Concentric Conformal map Continuous function Coordinate system Degeneracy (mathematics) Derivative Diameter Differential form Dimension Disk (mathematics) Dual curve Entire function Equation Equidistant Euler characteristic Existential quantification Exponential function Exterior (topology) Floor and ceiling functions Fundamental theorem Gauge factor General position Geometry Harmonic function Heine–Borel theorem Hermann Weyl Homogeneous coordinates Improper integral Integer Interior (topology) Inverse function Limit superior and limit inferior Line integral Linear differential equation Linear map Local parameter Logarithm Logarithmic derivative Mathematics Maximum principle Meromorphic function Modular form Modular group Moduli (physics) Monodromy theorem Multiple integral Natural number Notation Order by Parallelepiped Parameter Polyad Polynomial Power series Prime number Probability Projection (mathematics) Quantity Rational function Real variable Rectangle Residue theorem Riemann integral Riemann surface Rotational symmetry Second derivative Simply connected space Subset Summation Theorem Theory Topological space Total order Unit circle Unit vector Variable (mathematics) |
ISBN | 1-4008-8228-1 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION. EARLY HISTORY AND BIBLIOGRAPHY -- CHAPTER I. GEOMETRIC AND FUNCTION-THEORETIC FOUNDATIONS -- CHAPTER II. FIRST MAIN THEOREM FOR MEROMORPHIC CURVES -- CHAPTER III. THE SECOND MAIN THEOREM FOR MEROMORPHIC CURVES -- CHAPTER IV. FIRST AND SECOND MAIN THEOREMS FOR ANALYTIC CURVES -- CHAPTER V. THE DEFECT RELATIONS -- Backmatter |
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Order-Preserving Maps and Integration Processes. (AM-31), Volume 31 / / Edward J. McShane |
Autore | McShane Edward J. |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (148 pages) |
Disciplina | 512.86 |
Collana | Annals of Mathematics Studies |
Soggetto topico |
Group theory
Integrals |
Soggetto non controllato |
Abelian group
Addition Axiom Baire function Banach space Big O notation Binary operation Binary relation Borel set Bounded function Cartesian product Characteristic function (probability theory) Circumference Closure (mathematics) Coefficient Combination Commutative algebra Compact space Complete lattice Continuous function (set theory) Continuous function Contradiction Corollary Coset Countable set Directed set Domain of a function Elementary function Empty set Equation Equivalence class Estimation Existential quantification Finite set Fubini's theorem Hilbert space I0 Infimum and supremum Integer L-function Lattice (order) Lebesgue integration Limit (mathematics) Limit superior and limit inferior Linear map Measure (mathematics) Monotonic function Natural number Order of operations Parity (mathematics) Partially ordered group Partially ordered set Pointwise convergence Pointwise Polynomial Projection (linear algebra) Quadratic function Real number Requirement Riemann integral Riemann–Stieltjes integral Scalar multiplication Scientific notation Self-adjoint operator Set (mathematics) Set function Sign (mathematics) Special case Subset Subtraction Summation Theorem Unification (computer science) Upper and lower bounds |
ISBN | 1-4008-8230-3 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER I. PARTIALLY ORDERED SETS AND SYSTEMS -- CHAPTER II. DEFINITION OF THE MAPPING -- CHAPTER III. LATTICE PROPERTIES, CONVERGENCE AND MEASURABILITY -- CHAPTER IV. ALGEBRAIC OPERATIONS -- CHAPTER V. REAL-VALUED FUNCTIONS -- CHAPTER VI. APPLICATIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- Backmatter |
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McShane Edward J.
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Surface Area. (AM-35), Volume 35 / / Lamberto Cesari |
Autore | Cesari Lamberto |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (612 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 516.36 |
Collana | Annals of Mathematics Studies |
Soggetto topico | Surfaces |
Soggetto non controllato |
Absolute continuity
Addition Admissible set Arc length Axiom Axiomatic system Bearing (navigation) Bounded variation Calculus of variations Circumference Compact space Complex analysis Concentric Connected space Continuous function (set theory) Continuous function Corollary Countable set Covering set Curve Derivative Diameter Differentiable function Differential geometry Direct proof Dirichlet integral Disjoint sets Empty set Equation Equicontinuity Existence theorem Existential quantification Function (mathematics) Functional analysis Geometry Hausdorff measure Homeomorphism Homotopy Infimum and supremum Integral geometry Intersection number (graph theory) Interval (mathematics) Iterative method Jacobian Lebesgue integration Lebesgue measure Limit (mathematics) Limit point Limit superior and limit inferior Linearity Line–line intersection Locally compact space Mathematician Mathematics Measure (mathematics) Metric space Morphism Natural number Nonparametric statistics Orientability Parameter Parametric equation Parametric surface Partial derivative Potential theory Radon–Nikodym theorem Representation theorem Representation theory Right angle Semi-continuity Set function Set theory Sign (mathematics) Smoothness Space-filling curve Subset Summation Surface area Tangent space Theorem Topological space Topology Total order Total variation Uniform convergence Unit square |
ISBN | 1-4008-8232-X |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY- CONSIDERATIONS -- CHAPTER II. LEBESGUE AREA -- CHAPTER III. THE GEÖCZE AREAS V AND U AND THE PEANO AREA P -- CHAPTER IV. BV AND AC PLANE MAPPINGS -- CHAPTER V. THE FIRST THEOREM -- CHAPTER VI. THE CAVALIERI INEQUALITY -- CHAPTER VII. IDENTIFICATION OF LEBESGUE, GEÖCZE, PEANO AREAS -- CHAPTER VIII. GEOMETRICAL PROPERTIES AND THE SECOND THEOREM -- CHAPTER IX. THE REPRESENTATION PROBLEM -- CHAPTER X. THE REPRESENTATION OF GENERAL SURFACES AND THE THIRD THEOREM -- APPENDIX A. A DIRECT PROOF OF A PROPERTY OF CONTINUOUS SURFACES -- APPENDIX B. WEIERSTRASS INTEGRAL OVER A SURFACE -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- SPECIAL SIGNS AND ABBREVIATIONS -- Backmatter |
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Cesari Lamberto
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