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A Certain Ambiguity

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Author : Gaurav Suri
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2007-07-22

A Certain Ambiguity written by Gaurav Suri and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-07-22 with Fiction categories.

While taking a class on infinity at Stanford in the late 1980s, Ravi Kapoor discovers that he is confronting the same mathematical and philosophical dilemmas that his mathematician grandfather had faced many decades earlier--and that had landed him in jail. Charged under an obscure blasphemy law in a small New Jersey town in 1919, Vijay Sahni is challenged by a skeptical judge to defend his belief that the certainty of mathematics can be extended to all human knowledge--including religion. Together, the two men discover the power--and the fallibility--of what has long been considered the pinnacle of human certainty, Euclidean geometry. As grandfather and grandson struggle with the question of whether there can ever be absolute certainty in mathematics or life, they are forced to reconsider their fundamental beliefs and choices. Their stories hinge on their explorations of parallel developments in the study of geometry and infinity--and the mathematics throughout is as rigorous and fascinating as the narrative and characters are compelling and complex. Moving and enlightening, A Certain Ambiguity is a story about what it means to face the extent--and the limits--of human knowledge.

A Certain Ambiguity

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Author : Gaurav Suri
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2010-07-01

A Certain Ambiguity

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Author : Gaurav Suri
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007

A Certain Ambiguity written by Gaurav Suri and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Mathematics categories.

While Taking A Class On Infinity At Stanford In The Late 1980S, Ravi Kapoor Discovers That He Is Confronting The Same Mathematical And Philosophical Dilemmas That His Mathematician Grandfather Had Faced Many Decades Earlier-And That Had Landed Him In Jail. Charged Under An Obscure Blasphemy Law In A Small New Jersey Town In 1919, Vijay Sahni Was Challenged By A Sceptical Judge To Defend His Belief That The Certainty Of Mathematics Can Be Extended To All Human Knowledge-Including Religion. Both Vijay And Ravi Discover The Power-And The Fallibility-Of What Has Long Been Considered The Pinnacle Of Human Certainty, Euclidean Geometry. As Grandfather And Grandson Struggle With The Question Of Whether There Can Ever Be Absolute Certainty In Mathematics Or Life, They Are Forced To Reconsider Their Fundamental Beliefs And Choices. Their Stories Hinge On Their Explorations Of Parallel Developments In The Study Of Geometry And Infinity-And The Mathematics Throughout Is As Rigorous And Fascinating As The Narrative And Characters Are Compelling And Complex. Moving And Enlightening, A Certain Ambiguity Is A Story About What It Means To Face The Extent-And The Limits-Of Human Knowledge. Praise For The Book A Certain Ambiguity Is An Amazing Narrative That Glows With A Vivid Sense Of The Beauty And Wonder Of Mathematics . . . Mixing Fiction With Non-Fiction, [It] Is A Veritable History Of Mathematics Disguised As A Novel.'-Martin Gardner This Is A Truly Captivating Thriller That Will Take You On A Whirlwind Tour To Infinity-And Beyond. But Be Warned: Once You Start Reading, You Won'T Be Able To Put It Aside Until Finished!'-Eli Maor, Author Of E: The Story Of A Number And The Pythagorean Theorem: A 4,000-Year History By Deftly Blending The Young Man'S Story With Mathematical Ideas And Historical Developments . . . The Authors Succeed Brilliantly In Taking The Reader On A Tour Of Some Of The Major Highlights In The Philosophy Of Mathematics . . . The Book Also Examines, Through The Minds Of Its Characters, The Natures Of Faith . . . And Truth.'-Keith Devlin, Author Of The Math Gene

Seven Types Of Ambiguity

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Author : William Empson
language : en
Publisher: Read Books Ltd
Release Date : 2016-09-06

Seven Types Of Ambiguity written by William Empson and has been published by Read Books Ltd this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-06 with Literary Criticism categories.

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

The Ambiguity Of Play

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Author : Brian Sutton-Smith
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-30

The Ambiguity Of Play written by Brian Sutton-Smith and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-30 with Education categories.

Every child knows what it means to play, but the rest of us can merely speculate. Is it a kind of adaptation, teaching us skills, inducting us into certain communities? Is it power, pursued in games of prowess? Fate, deployed in games of chance? Daydreaming, enacted in art? Or is it just frivolity? Brian Sutton-Smith, a leading proponent of play theory, considers each possibility as it has been proposed, elaborated, and debated in disciplines from biology, psychology, and education to metaphysics, mathematics, and sociology. Sutton-Smith focuses on play theories rooted in seven distinct "rhetorics"--the ancient discourses of Fate, Power, Communal Identity, and Frivolity and the modern discourses of Progress, the Imaginary, and the Self. In a sweeping analysis that moves from the question of play in child development to the implications of play for the Western work ethic, he explores the values, historical sources, and interests that have dictated the terms and forms of play put forth in each discourse's "objective" theory. This work reveals more distinctions and disjunctions than affinities, with one striking exception: however different their descriptions and interpretations of play, each rhetoric reveals a quirkiness, redundancy, and flexibility. In light of this, Sutton-Smith suggests that play might provide a model of the variability that allows for "natural" selection. As a form of mental feedback, play might nullify the rigidity that sets in after successful adaption, thus reinforcing animal and human variability. Further, he shows how these discourses, despite their differences, might offer the components for a new social science of play.

The Routledge Handbook Of Propositions

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Author : Chris Tillman
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-09-30

The Routledge Handbook Of Propositions written by Chris Tillman and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-09-30 with Philosophy categories.

Propositions are routinely invoked by philosophers, linguists, logicians, and other theorists engaged in the study of meaning, communication, and the mind. To investigate the nature of propositions is to investigate the very nature of our connection to each other, and to the world around us. As one of the only volumes of its kind, The Routledge Handbook of Propositions provides a comprehensive overview of the philosophy of propositions, from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Comprising 33 original chapters by an international team of scholars, the volume addresses both traditional and emerging questions concerning the nature of propositions, and our capacity to engage with them in thought and in communication. The chapters are clearly organized into the following three sections: I. Foundational Issues in the Theory of Propositions II. Historical Theories of Propositions III. Contemporary Theories of Propositions Essential reading for philosophers of language and mind, and for those working in neighboring areas, The Routledge Handbook of Propositions is suitable for upper-level undergraduate study, as well as graduate and professional research.

Reading Lacan S Crits

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Author : Calum Neill
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2024-02-23

Reading Lacan S Crits written by Calum Neill and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-02-23 with Psychology categories.

Reading Lacan's Écrits is the first extensive set of commentaries on the complete edition of Lacan's Écrits to be published in English, providing an indispensable companion piece to some of Lacan's best-known but notoriously challenging writings. With the contributions of some of the world's most renowned Lacanian scholars and analysts, Reading Lacan's Écrits encompasses a series of systematic, paragraph-by-paragraph commentaries that not only contextualise, explain and interrogate Lacan's arguments but also afford the reader multiple interpretive routes through the complete edition of Lacan's most labyrinthine of texts. Considering the significance of Écrits as a landmark in the history of psychoanalysis, this far-reaching and accessible guide will sustain and continue to animate critical engagement with one of the most challenging intellectual works of the twentieth century. These volumes act as an essential and incisive reference-text for psychoanalysts and psychoanalytic psychotherapists in training and in practice, as well as philosophers, cultural theorists and literary, social science and humanities researchers. This volume covers the first two sections of the Écrits, providing close readings of the first eight essays.

Husserl Heidegger And The Crisis Of Philosophical Responsibility

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Author : R.P. Buckley
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06

Husserl Heidegger And The Crisis Of Philosophical Responsibility written by R.P. Buckley and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Philosophy categories.

The guiding dictum of phenomenology is "to the things themselves. " This saying conveys a sense that the "things," the "phenomena" with which we are confronted and into which we seek some insight are not as immediately accessible as may be imagined. Phenomena, however, are often hidden not by their distance from us, but by their very proximity, by the fact that they are taken for granted as being self-evident and understood by all. Even the most common, everyday phenomena and the words used to describe them often reveal, upon closer inspection, a degree of complexity which had previously been unsuspected. Upon interrogation, that which had been taken to be self-evident and widely understood shows itself otherwise; assumed self-evidence frequently masks unintelligibility and common understanding can be a sign of a lack of understanding. One phenomenon which is extremely proximate in our times is the phenomenon of "crisis. " To be sure, one can hardly avoid the word these it abound in periodicals and newspapers, but also, in days. Not only does the learned journals of medicine, political science, economics, art, and law, barely does an edition appear without the discussion of a crisis of one sort or another within these respective fields. One is tempted to remark, along with Umberto Eco, that "crisis sells well. "l One is also inclined to be suspicious of the collective malaise of academics.

Against White Interiority

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Author : Sam Binkley
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-07-04

Against White Interiority written by Sam Binkley and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-07-04 with Psychology categories.

This book presents a bold critique of the new racial sensibility that has attained global prominence following the police murder of George Floyd. Through a set of managerial and therapeutic discourses, this new sensibility describes the inner racial life of white subjects, inducing them to adopt a therapeutic attitude toward deeply interiorized white emotions and conflicts. In so doing, the new racial sensibility promises to remake whiteness in the image of the self-aware racial ally. However, such an appeal, it is argued, serves the subtle function of the preservation of white racial dispositions, and the reproduction of the very racism it sets out to transform. Adopting a critical lens derived from Michel Foucault’s analysis of sexuality, together with an engagement with sociological, psychoanalytic and phenomenological reflections on shame as a racial affect, a critique of white interiority considers alternative frames through which white anti-racist subjection might be imagined.

Gps Trends In Precise Terrestrial Airborne And Spaceborne Applications

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Author : Gerhard Beutler
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2012-12-06

Gps Trends In Precise Terrestrial Airborne And Spaceborne Applications written by Gerhard Beutler and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with Science categories.

These proceedings include most of the papers presented at the lAG Sympo sium GPS Trends in Precise Terrestrial, Airborne, and Spacebome Appli cations held in July 1995 during the XXI-th IUGG General Assembly in Boulder, Colorado. The symposium was jointly organized by the lAG and the International Union of Surveys and Mapping (IUSM). The symposium was divided into four sessions, namely (1) The International GPS Service for Geodynamics (IGS) and other Permanent Networks, (2) Spaceborne Applications of the GPS, (3) Kinematic Applications of the GPS, and (4) The GPS and its Relations to Geophysics. The main purpose was to give an overview of the state of the art in 1995 of the applications of the GPS to geodynamics, geodesy, surveying, and navi gation. The call for papers generated a flood of originally more than 70 abstracts; quite a few could be redirected to other symposia, but still 56 papers found their way into these proceedings. We thus conclude that the volume gives a rather complete overview of GPS Trends in Precise Terrestrial, Airborne, and Spacebome Applications in the year 1995.

A Certain Ambiguity

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