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  • Reactionary Mathematics

    A Genealogy of Purity

    de Massimo Mazzotti ...
    A forgotten episode of mathematical resistance reveals the rise of modern mathematics and its cornerstone, mathematical purity, as political phenomena.The nineteenth century opened with a major shift in European mathematics, and in the Kingdom of Naples, this occurred earlier than elsewhere. Between 1790 and 1830 its leading scientific institutions rejected as untrustworthy the "very modern ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Il teorema della purezza

    Politica, matematica e rivoluzione nel Regno di Napoli

    de Massimo Mazzotti ...
    Sono gli ultimi anni del Settecento. Un secolo sta finendo e con esso un’era, quella dei Lumi, che ha visto vacillare convinzioni e credenze ritenute valide per secoli. Mentre ancora risuona il fragore della rivoluzione, a Napoli, la più intellettuale delle città italiane, inizia una guerra silenziosa combattuta senza armi, ma con simboli, formule e teoremi. È la battaglia per la salvezza della ... Leer más

    $11.99 USD

  • The World of Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Mathematician of God

    de Massimo Mazzotti ...
    Series Libro 2 - Johns Hopkins Studies in the History of Mathematics
    The fascinating true story of mathematician Maria Agnesi.She is best known for her curve, the witch of Agnesi, which appears in almost all high school and undergraduate math books. She was a child prodigy who frequented the salon circuit, discussing mathematics, philosophy, history, and music in multiple languages. She wrote one of the first vernacular textbooks on calculus and was appointed chair ... Leer más

    $22.99 USD

  • Algorithmic Modernity

    Mechanizing Thought and Action, 1500-2000

    Edición de Morgan G. Ames, Massimo Mazzotti ...
    Algorithms have been transforming human society long before the advent of computing. Yet they continue to exist in relative invisibility despite their presence behind many of our modern social interactions. The rhetoric of algorithmic neutrality is more alive than ever, and algorithms are often depicted as obvious and unproblematic—without context and without history. Algorithmic Modernity draws ... Leer más

    $79.99 USD

  • Knowledge as Social Order

    Rethinking the Sociology of Barry Barnes

    Edición de Massimo Mazzotti ...
    Investigating a theme first pioneered by Barry Barnes in the early 1970s, this volume explores the relationship between social order and legitimate knowledge and is intended as a tribute to Barnes' seminal role in the development of the discipline of science and technology studies (STS). The contributors highlight the way in which Barnes' work has shaped their way of conceptualizing the basic ... Leer más

    $76.99 USD

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  • Science after the Practice Turn in the Philosophy, History, and Social Studies of Science

    Edición de Léna Soler, Sjoerd Zwart, Michael Lynch, Vincent Israel-Jost ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Philosophy of Science
    In the 1980s, philosophical, historical and social studies of science underwent a change which later evolved into a turn to practice. Analysts of science were asked to pay attention to scientific practices in meticulous detail and along multiple dimensions, including the material, social and psychological. Following this turn, the interest in scientific practices continued to increase and had an ... Leer más

    $72.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Sciences

    de Dov M. Gabbay, Paul Thagard, John Woods, Anthonie W.M. Meijers ...
    Series series Handbook of the Philosophy of Science
    The Handbook Philosophy of Technology and Engineering Sciences addresses numerous issues in the emerging field of the philosophy of those sciences that are involved in the technological process of designing, developing and making of new technical artifacts and systems. These issues include the nature of design, of technological knowledge, and of technical artifacts, as well as the toolbox of ... Leer más

    $188.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Science

    A Very Short Introduction

    de Samir Okasha ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    How much faith should we place in what scientists tell us? Is it possible for scientific knowledge to be fully 'objective'? What, really, can be defined as science? In the second edition of this Very Short Introduction, Samir Okasha explores the main themes and theories of contemporary philosophy of science, and investigates fascinating, challenging questions such as these. Starting at the very ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Borrowed Knowledge: Chaos Theory and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplines

    Chaos Theory and the Challenge of Learning across Disciplines

    de Stephen H. Kellert ...
    What happens to scientific knowledge when researchers outside the natural sciences bring elements of the latest trend across disciplinary boundaries for their own purposes? Researchers in fields from anthropology to family therapy and traffic planning employ the concepts, methods, and results of chaos theory to harness the disciplinary prestige of the natural sciences, to motivate methodological ... Leer más

    $35.99 USD

  • The Lady Tasting Tea

    How Statistics Revolutionized Science in the Twentieth Century

    de David Salsburg ...
    An insightful, revealing history of the magical mathematics that transformed our world. The Lady Tasting Tea is not a book of dry facts and figures, but the history of great individuals who dared to look at the world in a new way.At a summer tea party in Cambridge, England, a guest states that tea poured into milk tastes different from milk poured into tea. Her notion is shouted down by the ... Leer más

    $14.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • Complexity

    A Very Short Introduction

    de John H. Holland ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The importance of complexity is well-captured by Hawking's comment: "Complexity is the science of the 21st century". From the movement of flocks of birds to the Internet, environmental sustainability, and market regulation, the study and understanding of complex non-linear systems has become highly influential over the last 30 years. In this Very Short Introduction, one of the leading figures in ... Leer más

    $7.99 USD

  • Ideology and Modern Culture

    Critical Social Theory in the Era of Mass Communication

    de John B. Thompson ...
    In this major new work, Thompson develops an original account of ideology and relates it to the analysis of culture and mass communication in modern Societies.Thompson offers a concise and critical appraisal of major contributions to the theory of ideology, from Marx and Mannheim, to Horkheimer, Adorno and Habermas. He argues that these thinkers - and social and political theorists more generally ... Leer más

    $28.00 USD