2010 Reprint of 1961 Edition. The purpose of this book is to show, through actual true stories, how imaging creates reality. The world in which we live is a world of imagination. In fact, life itself is an activity of imagining. Neville's work is a guide to human imagination, and the positive means of putting it to use, as well as the negative ones.
《蘇菲的日記》 作者 Dora Musielak 譯者 洪萬生,洪贊天,黃俊瑋 出版社 三民書局股份有限公司 ISBN 9789571458793 分類 文學 世界文學 世界文學作品 出版日期 2014年01月 語言版本 中文(繁) 頁數 328 頁 版次 第 1 版 裝幀 平裝 內容簡介 《蘇菲的日記》是一部由法國數學家蘇菲.熱爾曼所啟發的小說作品。內容是以日記的形式,描述在法國大革命期間,一個女孩自修數學的成長故事。從故事中不僅能看到一個不平凡女孩的學習之旅,還能看到1789-1794年間,當時巴黎混亂社會的真實記述,而她後來也成為數學史上第一位且唯一一位對費馬最後定理之證明有實質貢獻的女性。 蘇菲.熱爾曼1776年出生於巴黎。有關她的童年或她如何進入數學領域,很少為人所知。最早寫她傳記的作家曾經寫道:她年輕時,冒用了工藝學院一位男生的名字,將
The Power of Awareness. In this book, author Neville presents a concise, unforgettable statement of his core philosophy: that the world around you is a picture in your mind's eye, created by your thinking, and susceptible to change by altering your thoughts and feelings.
2013 Reprint of 1941 Revised and Enlarged Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. Tarski is considered one of the five greatest logicians of all time, alongside Aristotle (384-322 BCE), Boole (1815-1864), Frege (1848-1925) and G?del. This book, together with Aristotle's "Prior Analytics" and Boole's "Laws of Thought," should form the core of any logic library. This classic undergraduate treatment examines the deductive method in its first part and explores applications of logic and methodology in constructing mathematical theories in its second part. A thought-provoking introduction to the fundamentals and the perfect adjunct to courses in logic and the foundations of mathematics. Exercises appear throughout.