- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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