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 |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781106903321 |
Byers William | ||
Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011 | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Ramification Theoretic Methods in Algebraic Geometry (AM-43), Volume 43 / / Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar |
Autore | Abhyankar Shreeram Shankar |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2016] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (117 pages) |
Disciplina | 512.815 |
Collana | Annals of Mathematics Studies |
Soggetto topico |
Algebraic fields
Geometry, Algebraic |
Soggetto non controllato |
Abelian group
Abstract algebra Additive group Affine variety Algebraic closure Algebraic curve Algebraic equation Algebraic function field Algebraic function Algebraic geometry Algebraic number theory Algebraic surface Algebraic variety Big O notation Birational geometry Branch point Cardinal number Cardinality Complex number Degrees of freedom (statistics) Dimension Equation Equivalence class Existential quantification Field extension Field of fractions Foundations of Algebraic Geometry Function field Galois group Generic point Ground field Homomorphism Ideal theory Integer Irrational number Irreducible component Linear algebra Local ring Mathematics Max Noether Maximal element Maximal ideal Natural number Nilpotent Noetherian ring Null set Order by Order type Parameter Primary ideal Prime ideal Prime number Projective variety Quantity Quotient ring Ramification group Rational function Rational number Real number Resolution of singularities Riemann surface Ring (mathematics) Special case Splitting field Subgroup Subset Theorem Theory of equations Transcendence degree Two-dimensional space Uniformization Valuation ring Variable (mathematics) Vector space Zero divisor Zorn's lemma |
ISBN | 1-4008-8139-0 |
Classificazione | SI 830 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- CHAPTER I: GENERAL RAMIFICATION THEORY -- CHAPTER II: VALUATION THEORY -- CHAPTER III: NOETHERIAN LOCAL RINGS -- CHAPTER IV: TWO-DIMENSIONAL LOCAL DOMAINS -- CHAPTER V: VARIETIES AND TRANSFORMATIONS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910154754403321 |
Abhyankar Shreeram Shankar | ||
Princeton, NJ : , : Princeton University Press, , [2016] | ||
Materiale a stampa | ||
Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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