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Review Of G. Israel, Meccanicismo. Trionfi E Miserie Della Visione Meccanica Del Mondo, Marco Panza
Review Of G. Israel, Meccanicismo. Trionfi E Miserie Della Visione Meccanica Del Mondo, Marco Panza
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"This is Giorgio's Israel last book, which appeared only a few weeks after his untimely death, in September 2015. For many reasons, it can be considered as his intellectual legacy, since it comes back, in a new and organic way, to many of the research topics to which he devoted his life and his many publications, which include several papers in Historia Mathematica. One of these papers, co-authored with M. Menghini, appeared in vol. 25/4, 1998 and was devoted to Poincaré's and Enriques's opposite views on qualitative analysis, which is a theme also dealt with in this book (pp. 117–122)."
Breathing Fresh Air Into The Philosophy Of Mathematics, Marco Panza
Breathing Fresh Air Into The Philosophy Of Mathematics, Marco Panza
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A review of Paolo Mancosu (ed.): The Philosophy of Mathematical Practice.
Book Review: Across The Board: The Mathematics Of Chessboard Problems By John J. Watkins, Arthur T. Benjamin
Book Review: Across The Board: The Mathematics Of Chessboard Problems By John J. Watkins, Arthur T. Benjamin
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I think I became a mathematician because I loved to play games as a child. I learned about probability and expectation by playing games like backgammon, bridge, and Risk. But I experienced the greater thrill of careful deductive reasoning through games like Mastermind and chess. In fact, for many years I took the game of chess quite seriously and played in many tournaments. But I gave up the game when I started college and turned my attention to more serious pursuits, like learning real mathematics.