The Boston College Lectures on Mathematical Logic and Existentialism, Volume 18
by Bernard Lonergan
Edited by Philip J. McShane
Price: $47.95
ISBN: 9780802084484
Pub Date: December 2001
This series of lectures delivered by Lonergan at Boston College in 1957 deal with the general character of mathematical logic and its relation to truth, Scholasticism, and Aristotelian logic.
In this book, Professor Johnson demonstrates how Wordsworth employed geometrical patterns in the metrical construction of his verse and how the character of those patterns can be related to the poet's major philosophical values.
Written within the tradition of Wittgenstein's work, these eight original essays in philosophical psychology are either by-products of efforts to understand Wittgenstein's later writings or applications of techniques and approaches derived from Wittgenstein to problems about which he did not say a great deal.
This textbook introduces non-Euclidean geometry, and the third edition adds a new chapter, including a description of the two families of 'mid-lines' between two given lines and an elementary derivation of the basic formulae of spherical trigonometry and hyperbolic trigonometry, and other new material.
This volume will provide invaluable assistance for mathematicians, historians of mathematics and users of mathematics in the retrieval of information about mathematicians and topics in mathematics and closely related fields.
In the decade before 1900, the Italian mathematician Giuseppe Peano was one of the most original and influential pioneers of modern mathematical logic. He made significant contributions to the development of the foundations of mathematics and the axiomatic method, dimension theory, measure theory, and vector analysis, among other areas.
Concise, logical, and mathematically rigorous, this introduction to the theory of dislocations is addressed primarily to students and researchers in the general areas of mechanics and applied mathematics.
Lattice path combinatorics has developed greatly as a branch of probability studies recently, and the need for new books on the subject is obvious. It treats several recent results and it offers a powerful new tool for studying many problems in mathematical statistics.
A survey of some of the main-line developments in trigonometric series. It is an extension of a Presidential address to Section III of the Royal Society of Canada.
Professor Lanczos's book is not a textbook on advances mechanics. Its purpose is to formulate and explain these fundamental concepts of this exact science which started with the work of Galileo and led to the achievements of modern relativity theory and quantum theory.
A book which applies some notions of algebra to geometry is a useful counterbalance in the present trend to generalization and abstraction. It should give a basis for the geometrical aspects and help to extend understanding of the connections between some classical branches of geometry.
