- The Applicability of Mathematics as a Philosophical Problem
- Mark Steiner
- This book analyzes the different ways in which mathematics is applicable to the physical sciences. Mark Steiner distinguishes among the semantic problems that arise from the use of mathematics in logical deduction; the metaphysical problems that arise from the alleged gap between mathematical objects and the physical world; the descriptive problems that arise from the use of mathematics to describe nature; and the epistemological problems that arise from the use of mathematics to discover those very descriptions.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2002
- A Course in Econometrics
- Arthur S. Goldberger
- Hardcover 1991
- The Equations
- Sander Bais
- In this beautifully designed book, the equations that govern our world unfold in all their formal grace--and their deeper meaning as core symbols of our civilization. The renowned Dutch physicist Sander Bais has produced a book that delves into the details of seventeen equations that form the very basis of what we know of the universe today.
- Hardcover 2005
- Frege's Philosophy of Mathematics
- Edited and with an Introduction by William Demopoulos
- This collection of essays addresses three main developments in recent work on Frege's philosophy of mathematics: the emerging interest in the intellectual background to his logicism; the rediscovery of Frege's theorem; and the reevaluation of the mathematical content of The Basic Laws of Arithmetic.
- Hardcover 1994 / Paperback 1997
- Game Theory
- Roger B. Myerson
- Eminently suited to classroom use as well as individual study, Roger Myerson's introductory text provides a clear and thorough examination of the models, solution concepts, results, and methodological principles of noncooperative and cooperative game theory. Myerson introduces, clarifies, and synthesizes the extraordinary advances made in the subject over the past fifteen years, presents an overview of decision theory, and comprehensively reviews the development of the fundamental models.
- Hardcover 1991 / Paperback 1997
- Game Theory and the Law
- Douglas Baird
- Robert Gertner
- Randal Picker
- This book promises to be the definitive guide to the field. It provides a highly sophisticated yet exceptionally clear explanation of game theory, with a host of applications to legal issues
- Hardcover 1994 / Paperback 1998
- The History of Statistics
- Stephen M. Stigler
- Stigler shows how statistics arose from the interplay of mathematical concepts and the needs of several applied sciences including astronomy, geodesy, experimental psychology, genetics, and sociology. His emphasis is upon how, when, and where the methods of probability theory were developed for measuring uncertainty in experimental and observational science, for reducing uncertainty, and as a conceptual framework for quantative studies in the social sciences.
- Hardcover 1986 / Paperback 1990
- Introductory Econometrics
- Arthur S. Goldberger
- Arthur Goldberger, an outstanding researcher and teacher of econometrics, views the subject as a tool of empirical inquiry rather than as a collection of arcane procedures. This is his textbook for the standard undergraduate econometrics course, with prerequisites of a semester course in statistics and one in differential calculus.
- Hardcover 1998
- Knots
- Alexei Sossinsky
- Translated by Giselle Weiss
- Ornaments and icons, symbols of complexity or evil, aesthetically appealing and endlessly useful in everyday ways, knots are also the object of mathematical theory, used to unravel ideas about the topological nature of space. In recent years knot theory has been brought to bear on the study of equations describing weather systems, mathematical models used in physics, and even, with the realization that DNA sometimes is knotted, molecular biology.
- Hardcover 2002 / Paperback 2004
- Logic, Logic, and Logic
- George Boolos
- Introduction and Afterword by Richard Jeffrey
- John P. Burgess, Volume editor
- George Boolos was one of the most prominent and influential logician-philosophers of recent times. This collection, nearly all chosen by Boolos himself shortly before his death, includes thirty papers on set theory, second-order logic, and plural quantifiers; on Frege, Dedekind, Cantor, and Russell; and on miscellaneous topics in logic and proof theory, including three papers on various aspects of the Gödel theorems.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 1999
- The Politics of Large Numbers
- Alain Desrosières
- Translated by Camille Naish
- In this sophisticated study of the history of statistics, which begins with probability theory in the seventeenth century, Alain Desrosières shows how the evolution of modern statistics has been inextricably bound up with the knowledge and power of governments. He traces the complex reciprocity between modern governments and the mathematical artifacts that both dictate the duties of the state and measure its successes.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 2002
- Randomness
- Deborah J. Bennett
- From the ancients' first readings of the innards of birds to your neighbor's last bout with the state lottery, humankind has put itself into the hands of chance. This book is aimed at the trouble with trying to learn about probability. A story of the misconceptions and difficulties civilization overcame in progressing toward probabilistic thinking, Randomness is also a skillful account of what makes the science of probability so daunting in our own day.
- Hardcover 1998 / Paperback 1999
- A Source Book in Classical Analysis
- Edited by Garrett Birkhoff
- Hardcover 1973
- A Source Book in Mathematics, 1200-1800
- Edited by D. J. Struik
- Hardcover 1969
- Statistics on the Table
- Stephen M. Stigler
- This lively collection of essays examines statistical ideas with an ironic eye for their essence and what their history can tell us for current disputes. The topics range from seventeenth-century medicine and the circulation of blood, to the cause of the Great Depression and the effect of the California gold discoveries of 1848 upon price levels, to the determinations of the shape of the Earth and the speed of light, to the meter of Virgil's poetry and the prediction of the Second Coming of Christ.
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2002
- Understanding the Infinite
- Shaughan Lavine
- How can the infinite, a subject so remote from our finite experience, be an everyday tool for the working mathematician? Blending history, philosophy, mathematics, and logic, Shaughan Lavine answers this question with exceptional clarity. Making use of the mathematical work of Jan Mycielski, he demonstrates that knowledge of the infinite is possible, even according to strict standards that require some intuitive basis for knowledge.
- Hardcover 1994 / Paperback 1998
- Very Special Relativity
- Sander Bais
- Bais's previous book, The Equations, was widely read and roundly praised for its clear and commonsense explanation of the math in physics. Very Special Relativity brings the same accessible approach to Einstein's theory. Using a series of easy-to-follow diagrams and employing only elementary high school geometry, Bais conducts readers through the quirks and quandaries of such fundamental concepts as simultaneity, causality, and time dilation.
- Hardcover 2007