Descartes' Dream

Descartes' Dream
Author: Philip J. Davis
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 354
Release: 2005-01-01
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0486442527


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These provocative essays take a modern look at the 17th-century thinker's dream, examining the influences of mathematics on society, particularly in light of technological advances. They survey the conditions that elicit the application of mathematic principles; the applications' effectiveness; and how applied mathematics transform perceptions of reality. 1987 edition.


Descartes' Dream
Language: en
Pages: 354
Authors: Philip J. Davis
Categories: Mathematics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-01-01 - Publisher: Courier Corporation

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These provocative essays take a modern look at the 17th-century thinker's dream, examining the influences of mathematics on society, particularly in light of te
Descartes' Error
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: Antonio Damasio
Categories: Psychology
Type: BOOK - Published: 2005-09-27 - Publisher: Penguin

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Since Descartes famously proclaimed, "I think, therefore I am," science has often overlooked emotions as the source of a person’s true being. Even modern neur
Descartes: Philosophical Essays and Correspondence
Language: en
Pages: 360
Authors: René Descartes
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2000-03-15 - Publisher: Hackett Publishing

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A superb text for teaching the philosophy of Descartes, this volume includes all his major works in their entirety, important selections from his lesser known w
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Language: en
Pages: 127
Authors: John G. Cottingham
Categories: Philosophy
Type: BOOK - Published: 2014-04-03 - Publisher: Granta Books

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'I realized it was necessary to demolish everything and start again right from the foundations, if I wanted to establish anything in the sciences that was stabl
Descartes' Bones
Language: en
Pages: 338
Authors: Russell Shorto
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-08-25 - Publisher: Vintage

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Sixteen years after René Descartes' death in Stockholm in 1650, a pious French ambassador exhumed the remains of the controversial philosopher to transport the