Tag: Mathematician

December 13, 2024

ARE SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED A MATHEMATICIAN ENCOUNTERS POSTMODERN INTERPRETATIONS OF SCIENCE

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Free Download Richard C Brown, "ARE SCIENCE AND MATHEMATICS SOCIALLY CONSTRUCTED? A MATHEMATICIAN ENCOUNTERS POSTMODERN INTERPRETATIONS OF SCIENCE"
English | ISBN: 9812835245 | 2009 | 317 pages | PDF | 2 MB
This book is a history, analysis, and criticism of what the author calls "postmodern interpretations of science" (PIS) and the closely related "sociology of scientific knowledge" (SSK). This movement traces its origin to Thomas Kuhn’s revolutionary work, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions (1962), but is more extreme. It believes that science is a "social construction", having little to do with nature, and is determined by contextual forces such as the race, class, gender of the scientist, laboratory politics, or the needs of the military industrial complex. Since the 1970s, PIS has become fashionable in humanities and ethnic or women’s studies, as well as in the new academic field of science, technology, and society. It has been attacked by numerous authors and the resulting conflicts led to the so-called Science Wars of the 1990s. While the present book is also critical of PIS, it focuses on its intellectual and political origins and tries to understand why it became influential in the 1970s. The book is both an intellectual and a political history. It examines the thoughts of Karl Popper, Karl Mannheim, Ludwik Fleck, Thomas Kuhn, Paul Feyerabend, David Bloor, Steve Shapin, Bruno Latour, and PIS-like doctrines in mathematics. It also describes various philosophical contributions to PIS ranging from the Greek sophists to 20th century post-structuralists and argues that the disturbed political atmosphere of the Vietnam War era was critical to the rise of PIS.

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September 18, 2024

Mapmatics A Mathematician’s Guide to Navigating the World

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Free Download Mapmatics: A Mathematician’s Guide to Navigating the World by Paulina Rowińska
English | September 17th, 2024 | ISBN: 0674294238 | 304 pages | True EPUB | 14.84 MB
"I love maps. I love math. And gosh, do I love this book, which so beautifully and clearly sounds the depths of both." -Ben Orlin, author of Math with Bad Drawings

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April 25, 2024

Felix Hausdorff Mathematician, Philosopher, Man of Letters

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Free Download Felix Hausdorff: Mathematician, Philosopher, Man of Letters
English | 2024 | ISBN: 303152134X | 512 Pages | PDF (True) | 15 MB
Felix Hausdorff is a singular phenomenon in the history of science. As a mathematician, he played a major role in shaping the development of modern mathematics in the 20th century. He founded general topology as an independent mathematical discipline, while enriching set theory with a number of fundamental concepts and results. His general approach to measure and dimension led to profound developments in numerous mathematical disciplines, and today Hausdorff dimension plays a central role in fractal theory with its many fascinating applications by means of computer graphics. Hausdorff ‘s remarkable mathematical versatility is reflected in his published work: today, no fewer than thirteen concepts, theorems and procedures carry his name. Yet he was not only a creative mathematician – Hausdorff was also an original philosophical thinker, a poet, essayist and man of letters. Under the pseudonym Paul Mongré, he published a volume of aphorisms, an epistemological study, abook of poetry, an oft-performed play, and a number of notable essays in leading literary journals. As a Jew, Felix Hausdorff was increasingly persecuted and humiliated under the National Socialist dictatorship. When deportation to a concentration camp was imminent, he, along with his wife and sister-in law, decided to take their own lives.

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January 30, 2024

Look I’m a Mathematician

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Free Download Look I’m a Mathematician By DK Publishing
2019 | 48 Pages | ISBN: 1465468471 | PDF | 27 MB
This playful preschool math activity book will unleash your child’s curiosity as they play their way through 20 fantastic math projects.Each easy step-by-step activity is hands-on and practical to encourage budding mathematicians to use their senses. Look I’m A Mathematician explores essential math topics to get children prepared for school – the perfect math book for kids ages 3 to 6.Look I’m A Mathematician is full of activities to show young readers just how much fun math can be!Children will discover that math has a part in everything in the world and that they already have the tools they need to become magical mathematicians – a curious mind, unlimited imagination, and super senses. A great introduction to learning math, this book teaches kids the magic of numbers through play with number bugs, creating a hungry adding robot, learning about subtraction by playing skittles, crafting 3D shape aliens, and even making a repeating pattern fruit wand. Covering a comprehensive range of math topics, from counting and numbers to shape and size, and measurements and time, this is the perfect first math book for children. Every fun project features a mixture of bright photography and charming illustrations that support the easy-to-follow activity instructions. These creative hands-on activities support classroom math taught in schools.Look I’m A Mathematician allows little readers to do what they do best – imagine, create, learn, problem-solve, and play their way to math magic!Try Out Amazing Projects!You don’t need a fancy calculator or a whiteboard full of big numbers to be a mathematician. You already have everything you need – your amazing brain and your senses!Look I’m A Mathematician is full of puzzles to solve, things to work out, and brain teasers. This educational book is full of fun math activities for kids like: – A math treasure hunt- Making shape aliens- Measuring things- Clever counting – And much, much more!DK’s Look! I’m Learning series of exciting and educational STEM books, focus on the sensory experience of practical learning and play. Hands-on learning experiences tap straight into kids’ insatiable curiosity and sense of wonder. These books for children are perfect for ages 3 – 6, formatted with a padded cover and toddler-tough pages. The series encourages children to develop independence and improves their critical thinking, investigation skills, and motor skills. Try the other titles in the series next, including Look I’m A Cook, Look I’m A Scientist, and Look I’m An Engineer.

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January 16, 2024

An Applied Mathematician’s Apology

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Free Download Lloyd N. Trefethen, "An Applied Mathematician’s Apology"
English | ISBN: 1611977185 | 2022 | 80 pages | PDF | 3 MB
In 1940 G. H. Hardy published A Mathematician’s Apology, a meditation on mathematics by a leading pure mathematician. Eighty-two years later, An Applied Mathematician’s Apology is a meditation and also a personal memoir by a philosophically inclined numerical analyst, one who has found great joy in his work but is puzzled by its relationship to the rest of mathematics.

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