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
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Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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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-9910822780703321 |
Byers William
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Princeton, : Princeton University Press, c2011 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Diagonalization in Formal Mathematics / Paulo Guilherme Santos |
Autore | Santos, Paulo Guilherme |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Wiesbaden, : Springer Spektrum, 2020 |
Descrizione fisica | 99 p. : ill. ; 24 cm |
Soggetto topico |
03-XX - Mathematical logic and foundations [MSC 2020]
03F40 - Gödel numberings and issues of incompleteness [MSC 2020] |
Soggetto non controllato |
Banach theorem
Curry’s paradox Diagonalization Diagonalization lemma Fixed Points Knaster–Tarski theorem Lawvere’s diagonal argument Paradoxes Russell’s paradox Self-reference Smullyan’s theorem Yablo’s paradox |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Titolo uniforme | |
Record Nr. | UNICAMPANIA-VAN0248524 |
Santos, Paulo Guilherme
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Wiesbaden, : Springer Spektrum, 2020 | ||
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Lo trovi qui: Univ. Vanvitelli | ||
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