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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - The powers of seeing, hearing, re membering, distinguishing, judging, reason ing, are speculative powers; the power of ex ecuting any work of art or labour is active power. Thomas Reid I Some causal efficacy is due to persons. And, some of the causal efficacy due to persons is imparted by, not merely to, them. Further, some of the causal efficacy due to persons and imparted by them is imparted by and not merely to their physical, active bodies. Otherwise there is no agency. I will assume, with everyone at the outset, that the world contains agency of the kind found in some of a person's comings and goings, movings and changing of things. Agency is exhibited in more and in less sophisticated forms, that is, in any sophisticated, artful activity and in less complex, non-articulate physical activities. In both there appears to be more than mere causal efficacy imparted to the environment by a person. In sophisticated agen cy activities are organized, guided, purposive and purposeful comings and goings, movings and changes. And purpose is not absent in less soph isticated purposive activities of active creatures. So I shall argue in what follows. Now is the time for introducing the themes, topics, and issues to be considered, and the plan and purpose in them.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - This book was written as a doctoral thesis. It was submitted to and accepted by the University of Poona in 1979. Several people contributed to the creation of this book, in various ways. Prof. S. D. Joshi, my supervisor, introduced me to the study of the Sanskrit grammatical tradition. His unfailing skepticism towards and disagreement with the ideas worked out in this book contributed more to their development than he may have been aware. Prof. Paul Kiparsky gave encouragement when this was badly needed. In the years following 1979 Dr. Dominik Wujastyk was kind enough to read the manuscript and suggest improvements in language and style. To all of these lowe a debt of gratitude, but most of all lowe such a debt to Pandit Shivarama Krishna Shastri. In the course of several years he read with me many portions of Nagesa's grammatical and other works, and much besides. His ability to understand difficult grammatical and philosophical texts in Sanskrit was unequalled, and without his help it would have taken far longer to write this book and indeed might very well have proved impossible. Shivarama Krishna Shastri never saw the result of our reading; he died before this book could appear in print. I dedicate it to his memory. J. BRONKHORST Xl INTRODUCTION In the following pages an attempt will be made to establish that the part of Nagesa's Paribha$endusekhara (PS) which deals with Par.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - There was a long felt need for this book in industrial and academic institutions. It provides new engineers, as well as practicing engineers and advanced laboratory personnel in the field of semiconductors a clear and thorough discussion of state-of-the-art silicon devices, without resorting to the complexity of higher mathematics and physics. This difficult task was made possible by detailing the explanation of equations that describe the device operation and characteristics without endeavoring their full derivation. This is reinforced by several problems which reflect practical cases observed in the laboratory. The problems are given after introducing a major equation or concept. They are arranged in the order of the text rather than in the order of difficulty. The answers to most of the problems are given in order to enable the student to 'self-check' the method used for the solutions. The illustrations may prove to be of great help to 'newcomers' when dealing with the characterization of real devices and relating the measured data to device physics and process parameters. The new engineer will find the book equivalent to 'on the job training' and acquire a working knowledge of the fundamental principles underlying silicon devices. For the engineer with theoretical background, it offers a means for direct application of solid state theory to device analysis and synthesis. The book originated from a set of notes developed for an in-house one-year course in Device Physics, Technology and Characterization at IBM.

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Buch. Condizione: Neu. Neuware - I. C. Jarvie was trained as a social anthropologist in the center of British social anthropology - the London School of Economics, where Bronislaw Malinowski was the object of ancestor worship. Jarvie's doctorate was in philosophy, however, under the guidance of Karl Popper and John Watkins. He changed his department not as a defector but as a rebel, attempting to exorcize the ancestral spirit. He criticized the method of participant obser vation not as useless but as not comprehensive: it is neither necessary nor sufficient for the making of certain contributions to anthropology; rather, it all depends on the problem-situation. And so Jarvie remained an anthro pologist at heart, who, in addition to some studies in rather conventional anthropological or sociological molds, also studied the tribe of social scien tists, but also critically examining their problems - especially their overall, rather philosophical problems, but not always so: a few of the studies in cluded in this volume exemplify his work on specific issues, whether of technology, or architecture, or nationalism in the academy, or moviemaking, or even movies exhibiting excessive sex and violence. These studies attract his attention both on account of their own merit and on account of their need for new and powerful research tools, such as those which he has forged in his own intellectual workshop over the last two decades.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -An introduction to tensor product spaces.- Proximinality.- The alternating algorithm.- Central proximity maps.- The diliberto-straus algorithm in C(S ¿T).- The algorithm of von golitschek.- The L 1-version of the diliberto-straus algorithm.- Estimates of projection constants.- Minimal projections.- Appendix on the bochner integral.- Appendix on miscellaneous results in banach spaces. 168 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Weakley continuous functions on banach spaces containing 1.- Some remarks on the Banach space structure of the ball-algebras.- Numerical radius attaining operators.- Absolute projection constants via absolute minimal projections.- Matrix norms related to Grothendieck's inequality.- Characterization of weak compactness in function spaces by means of uniform convergence of extended operators.- Complex martingale convergence.- Laws of random Gaussian functions, some inequalities.- On the radon-nikodym property in function spaces.- Symmetric sequences in Lp, l p 208 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -On some properties of an absorptive area and a chaotic area for an R2-endomorphism.- A functional equation for the embedding of a homeomorphism of the interval into a flow.- On the bifurcation between a chaotic area of TK and a chaotic area of T.- On the definitions of attractors.- Functional equations connected with peculiar curves.- Iteration and analytic classification of local diffeomorphisms of .- On pseudo-processes and their extensions.- The pilgerschritt transform in lie algebras.- Product-integration and one-parameter subgroups of linear lie-groups.- The perturbative method for discrete processes and its physical application.- Itineraries under unimodal maps.- Cauchy functional equation on a restricted domain and commuting functions.- On a criterion of iteration in rings of formal power series.- Rotation sequences and bifurcations structure of one-dimensional endomorphisms.- Chaos almost everywhere.- Iterations and logarithms of automorphisms of complete local rings.- On a differential equation arising in iteration theory in rings of formal power series in one variable.- Long line attractors.- Properties of invariant curves near a known invariant curve.- Normal forms for systems of formal power series commuting in pairs and iteration problems.- On increasing iteration semigroups of multi-valued functions.- Plant growth as an iteration process.- Phantom iterates of continuous functions.- Competition between attractive cycle and strange attractor.- On the relation between orbits of an iteration semigroup and the orbits of the embedded mappings.- On embedding of homeomorphisms of the circle in a continuous flow. 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Prologue.- Analyticity spaces, trajectory spaces and linear mappings between them.- Illustrative examples of analyticity spaces.- Compound spaces, tensor products and kernel theorems.- Algebras of continuous linear mappings on analyticity spaces and trajectory spaces.- A mathematical interpretation of Dirac's formalism for quantum mechanics. 280 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The basic definitions.- Completions and triangulations.- Homotopies. 352 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Local systems.- Cluster sets.- Continuity.- Variation of a function.- Monotonicity.- Relations among derivates.- The denjoy-young relations. 240 pp. Englisch.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Abstract interpretation of denotational definitions.- Temporal reasoning under generalized fairness constraints.- Decidabilite de l'egalite des Langages Algebriques Infinitaires Simples.- Some probabilistic powerdomains in the category SFP.- Ions and local definitions in logic programming.- Input sensitive, optimal parallel randomized algorithms for addition and identification.- A parallel statistical cooling algorithm.- Subgraph isomorphism for biconnected outerplanar graphs in cubic time.- Polynomial time algorithms for finding integer relations among real numbers.- New upperbounds for decentralized extrema-finding in a ring of processors.- Algorithms for visibility representations of planar graphs.- Speeding up random access machines by few processors.- Efficient algorithms for finding minimum spanning forests of hierarchically defined graphs.- On sparseness, ambiguity and other decision problems for acceptors and transducers.- Varietes de Semis Groupes et Mots Infinis.- Equations in free partially commutative monoids.- Separating and testing.- Decomposition de Fonctions Rationnelles.- Long unavoidable patterns.- Abstract implementations and correctness proofs.- Strictness and serializability.- Towards specification and proof of asynchronous systems.- Monotone boolean formulas, distributive lattices, and the complexities of logics, algebraic structures, and computation structures (preliminary report).- Concurrent conciseness of degree, probabilistic, nondeterministic and deterministic finite automata.- Logspace hierarchies, polynomial time and the complexity of fairness problems concerning -machines.- On sparse oracles separating feasible complexity classes.- On generalized kolmogorov complexity.- Area-time optimal division for T= ((logn)1+ ).- A time-space tradeoff for element distinctness.- Parallel machines and their communication theoretical limits. 384 pp. Englisch, Französisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Lower postnikov terms of generalized CW complexes and semi-simple actions.- 3-fold branched coverings and the mapping class group of a surface.- Locally flat embeddings of three dimensional manifolds in four dimensional manifolds.- Differential characters and geometric invariants.- Minimal branched immersions into three-manifolds.- Representations of fundamental groups of surfaces.- Comparison theorems for volumes in surfaces.- The isometry-invariant geodesics problem: Closed and open.- Attractors for discrete-time monotone dynamical systems in strongly ordered spaces.- Presentation classes, 3-manifolds and free products.- Proper actions on homogeneous spaces.- Deformation spaces for seifert manifolds.- Abelian invariants of satellite knots.- An introduction to compactifying spaces of hyperbolic structures by actions on trees.- A note on an invariant of fintushel and stern.- Handlebodies and 2-complexes.- Extrema associated with homotopy classes of maps.- Geometries and geometric structures in real dimension 4 and complex dimension 2. 300 pp. Englisch.

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Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -A classification of real and complex finite dimensional J -algebras.- F-structures, F-twistor spaces and harmonic maps.- Harmonic and holomorphic maps. 236 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -On the localization theorem at the cochain level and free torus actions.- On homotopy classification problems of J.H.C. whitehead.- Regular polytopes and equivariant tessellations from a combinatorial point of view.- A problem of adams on H\* (BG;Zp).- On the stable cohomology of the mapping class group.- Homology operations derived from modular coinvariants.- Higher order homotopy invariants for higher dimensional link maps.- Smooth and locally linear g homotopy representations.- Closed geodesics on stiefel manifolds.- Topological H0¿1-actions on spheres and linking numbers.- Verschlingung von Fixpunktmengen in Darstellungsformen. I.- Modular Representations of GL(n,FP) and Homotopy Theory.- Quelques propri¿s du foncteur . 216 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book contains the proceedings of EUROCRYPT 85, held in Paris in 1984, April 9-11, at the University of Paris, Sorbonne. EIJROCRYPT is now an annual international European meeting in cryptology, intended primarily for the international of researchers in this area. EUROCRYPT 84 was community following previous meetings held at Burg Feuerstein in 1982 and at IJdine in 1983. In fact EUROCRYPT 84 was thc first such meeting being organized under IXCR (International Association of Cryptology Research). Other sponsors were the well-known French association on cybernetics research AFCET, the LITP (Laborstoire d' Informntique thcorique called et de Programmation), which is a laboratory of computer science associated with CNRS, and the department of mathematics and computer science at the Ilniversity RenE Descartcs, Sorbonne. EUROCRYPT 83 was very successfull, with about 180 participants from a great variety of foreign countries and 50 papers addressing all aspects of cryptology, close to applied as well as theoretical. It also had a special feature, i.e. a special session on smart cards particularly welcome at the time, since France was then carrying on an ambitious program on smart cards. EUROCRYPT 84 was a great experience. We like to thank all the sponsors and all the authors for their submission of papers. Pakin, Decemben 74ti4. CONTENTS SECTION I: GENERAL THEORY, CLASSICAL METHODS 3 Cryptology and Complexity Theories . G. RLiGGTU 1 0 On Cryptosystems based on Folynomials md I inite Fields. . R. irvi 16 Algehraical Structures of Cryptographic lransformations. . 504 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This series of yearly books on Advances in Neurotraumatology is being published under the auspices of the Scientific Committee of Neuro traumatology of the World Federation of Neurological Surgeons. For some years neurotraumatology was perhaps too much looked upon as a secondary part of neurosurgery. But the constant increase of cases has provoked a renewal of interest all over the world, involving not only neurosurgeons but also any surgeon who has to take care of such patients. Each volume, in order to cover the whole of neurosurgery, will be concerned with a special topic, the various chapters of which being envisaged in detail, and followed by a practical 'How to do it'. Every volume will also contain chapters outside the envisaged topic regarding some up-to-date problems. The authors, chosen from various countries for their special competence, will try to offer an efficient contribution to the knowledge of neuro traumatology, and also to present a bedside series of handy books helping those who tend these cases. The first volume will deal with 'Extracerebral Collections', the second 'Dorsal and Lumbar Spine and Spinal Cord Injuries', the third 'Cerebral Contusions, Lacerations and Hematomas', and the next ones will continue to successively approach all the other neurotraumatological topics. 268 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Using algebra for concurrency: Some approaches.- Some aspects of net theory.- From state machines to temporal logic: Specification methods for protocol standards.- A practical approach to the analysis of concurrent systems.- The problem set.- Specifying problem one using the ¿failure¿ sets model for CSP and deriving CSP processes which meet this specification.- Two-way channel with disconnect.- Workshop on analysis of concurrent systems attempt at problem 3: The firing squad.- Parallel combinator reduction machine.- Workshop on analysis of concurrent systems attempt at problem 8: Mixing synchronous and asynchronous input.- Workshop on analysis of concurrent systems attempt at problem 10: The matrix switch.- On the specification of the firing squad problem.- Towards the hierarchical, temporal logic, specification of concurrent systems.- Two way channel with disconnect.- An example of specification and verification in CESAR.- Trace theory and the specification of concurrent systems.- Syntax and informal semantics of DyNe, a parallel language.- Examples of a real-time temporal logic specification.- Problems from the workshop on the analysis of concurrent systems.- A simple railway system.- Description and analysis using CIRCAL.- Firing squad.- Specification of a simplified Network Service in Z (Problem 2).- Specification of a simplified Network Service in CSP (Problem 2).- A solution to problem 7 ¿ parallel combinator reduction machine ¿.- A temporal analysis of some concurrent systems.- Solutions to problem no. 2.- A CSP solution to the 'trains' problem.- The train set problem.- Conclusions. 412 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -Die Anwendungen des Lasers erwei tern sich in rasantem Tempo. Die von der Miinchner Messe- und Ausstellungsgesell schaft alle zwei Jahre durchgefiihrte KongreB-Messe LASER - OPTOELEKTRONIK vereinigte erneut die internationale Fach welt in Hiinchen, an ihrer Spitze Th. Maiman, den Erfinder des Lasers. Die Vortrage des 7. Internationalen Kongresses LASER 85 OPTOELEKTRONIK zeigen den neuesten Stand und einen Ausblick auf zukiinftige Entwicklungen. Der vor liegende Band umfaBt den technischen Bereich, die LASER - Medizin wird in einem gesonderten Band publiziert. Allen Autoren und dem Springer-Verlag sei fiir die gute Kooperation herzlich gedankt. Mage das inhal tsreiche verk fachliche Information und Anregungen vermitteln. Miinchen, im November 1985 W. Waidelich Preface The applications of laser extend very rapidly. The biennial LASER-OPTOELECTRONICS fair organized by the MMG attracted again the international experts headed by Mr. Maiman, the inventor of the laser. The papers given at the 7th inter national congress LASER 85 OPTOELECTRONICS present an over view of the state of the art and future developments. This volume contains the contributions Pds. rom the technical field. Medical contributions are published in a separate volume. Wi th all due thanks to the authors and the Springer Verlag this book is dedicated to a wide circle of readers. It is intended for anyone who is looking for expert information and ideas. 868 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -While the ability of animals to learn rhythms is an unquestionable fact, the underlying neurophysiological mechanisms are still no more than conjectures. This monograph explores the requirements of such mechanisms, reviews those previously proposed and postulates a new one based on a direct electric coding of stimulation frequencies. Experi mental support for the option taken is provided both at the single neuron and neural network levels. More specifically, the material presented divides naturally into four parts: a description of the experimental and theoretical framework where this work becomes meaningful (Chapter 2), a detailed specifica tion of the pacemaker neuron model proposed together with its valida tion through simulation (Chapter 3), an analytic study of the behavior of this model when submitted to rhythmic stimulation (Chapter 4) and a description of the neural network model proposed for learning, together with an analysis of the simulation results obtained when varying seve ral factors related to the connectivity, the intraneuronal parameters, the initial state and the stimulation conditions (Chapter 5). This work was initiated at the Computer and Information Science Depart ment of the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and completed at the Institut de c Lber n e t Lca of the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona. Computers at the latter place have adopted Catalan as their mother tongue and thus some computer-made figures in this monograph, specially those in Chapter 5, appear labeled in that tongue. 236 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The author's principal aim is to win over the patient through the development of the 'positive' aspects of his psychopathology-a concern the significance of which I have also discovered, especially in schizophrenic therapy. It is in this specific sense that Peseschkian speaks of 'positive' psychotherapy. His model is a notable synthesis of psychodynamic and behavior-therapeutic elements, making an essential contribution to unified relationships within psychotherapy. In this way Peseschkian is attempting not to directly confront the patient's resistances. The consultation takes place in a loving way through allusions to poetry, proverbs and oriental fairy tales and myths, to which Peseschkian, as a Persian, has direct access. His ability to offer his patient a great treasure of handed-down wisdom knows no bounds. Anyone who has personally experi enced the author's therapeutic enthusiasm and optimism will understand why this method of short psychotherapeutic procedure is highly successful in its effects. Professor Gaetano Benedetti, M. D. 352 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -G. di Gennaro Abuse of drugs has reached such magnitude that it is regarded by most govern ments, scholars, and experts as one of the major problems of present-day society. The highest values of individuals and social groups are strongly attacked or are at risk as a result of the spread of drug abuse. As a consequence, society is deprived of the contribution of many of its members toward the establishment of better condi tions of life. On the other hand, considerable portions of the limited resources of so ciety are diverted to assist, cure, and rehabilitate drug addicts. The enormous gains derived from illicit traffic in drugs are contributing tremendously to the strengthen ing of criminal organizations and the rise of new aggressive criminal syndicates. The financial means of these groups are invested in illegal enterprises which extend the criminals' power to various sectors of the economy. One should recognize that the vast criminal network which is behind this crimi nal big business has achieved such strength that it acts as a counter-power. Corrup tion, racketeering, oppression, and illicit influences are among the dreadful ele ments which unavoidably accompany drug trafficking. The price paid for this by humanity is incommensurate. 240 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -An algorithmic interface structure for pascal compilers.- Nonuniform complexity classes, decision graphs and homological properties of posets.- On the control of concurrent systems by restrictions of the state behaviour.- From domino tilings to a new model of computation.- Nondeterministic Propositional Dynamic Logic with intersection is decidable.- A note on selection networks.- Correctness of inconsistent theories with notions of feasibility.- On the log-space reducibility among array languages /preliminary version/.- Non-uniformity of dynamic logic.- Model theory of propositional logics of programs, some open problems.- Some results on decision trees with relations to computational trees.- Propositional calculi of term satisfiability and process logics.- On the effectiveness of some operations on algorithms.- Concatenation of program modules an algebraic approach to the semantic and implementation problems.- Regular expressions for infinite trees and a standard form of automata.- Equational -calculus.- A logic of indiscernibility relations.- Rough sets and decision tables.- On learning ¿ a rough set approach.- A methodology for improving parallel programs by adding communications.- Extension of PDL and consequence relations.- Rough-sets based learning systems.- Theories of interacting stacks.- Rough concepts logic.- An equivalence between indiscernibility relations in information systems and a fragment of intuitionistic logic.- On the recognition of context-free languages.- On multi-valued homomorphisms.- Traces and semiwords.- Deadlock prediction in linear systems.- Propositional dynamic logics with counters and stacks.- Transition graphs semantics and languages.- On the implementation of CSP mechanisms in loglan. 412 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -The theory of arithmetical functions has always been one of the more active parts of the theory of numbers. The large number of papers in the bibliography, most of which were written in the last forty years, attests to its popularity. Most textbooks on the theory of numbers contain some information on arithmetical functions, usually results which are classical. My purpose is to carry the reader beyond the point at which the textbooks abandon the subject. In each chapter there are some results which can be described as contemporary, and in some chapters this is true of almost all the material. This is an introduction to the subject, not a treatise. It should not be expected that it covers every topic in the theory of arithmetical functions. The bibliography is a list of papers related to the topics that are covered, and it is at least a good approximation to a complete list within the limits I have set for myself. In the case of some of the topics omitted from or slighted in the book, I cite expository papers on those topics. 376 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This supplement to 'Acta Neurochirurgica' contains a selection of papers which were presented at the 9th Scientific Meeting of the European Society for Paediatric Neurosurgery on Space Occupying Lesions of the Cerebral Midline in Vienna, October 10-13,1984. This meeting was arranged at the same location where the ESPN was founded exactly seventeen years ago. Although the presentations in this meeting dealt with numerous important problems encountered in paediatric neurosurgery, the main emphasis was on that special problem which exemplifies the extraordinary advances in paediatric neurosurgery and its related fields. Therefore the main topic of this scientific meeting was dedicated to the subject of 'Space Occupying Lesions of the Cerebral Midline'. Recent diagnostic procedures, such as computerized axial tomography and magnetic resonance imaging, now enable the neurosurgeon preoperatively, to obtain precise data on the location, and in many cases also on the nature of a lesion deep within the brain. Fundamental new knowledge in neuroanatomy and neurotopography has now transformed previous high-risk procedures into routine ones for the neurosurgeon, and an abundance of new surgical techniques has improved the success rate in the treatment of many patients. The scientific meetings of the ESPN have proved to be a successful forum for the exchange of experiences, opinions and even critical discussions. The present selection of papers will undoubtedly support this endeavour. Wolfgang T. Koos Gerhard Pendl Contents A. Statistics Koos, Wo To, Horaczek, Ao: Statistics of Intracranial Midline Tumors in Children 0 1 B. 136 pp. Englisch.

Taschenbuch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This collection is the first proceedings volume of the lectures delivered within the framework of the Israel Colloquium for the History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science, in its year of inauguration 1981-82. It thus marks the beginning of a new venture. Rather than attempting to express an ideology of the l}nity of science, this collection in fact aims at presenting a kaleidoscopic picture of the variety of views about science and within science. Three main disciplines come together in this volume. The first of scientists, the second of historians and sociologists of science, the third of philosophers interested in science. The scientists try to present the scientific body of knowledge in areas where the scientific adventure kindles the imagination of the culture of our time. At the same of course, they register their own reflections on the nature of this body time, of knowledge and on its likely course of future development. For the historians and sociologists, in contrast, science is there to be studied diachronically, as a process, on the one hand, and synchronically, as a social institution, on the other. As for the phil9sophers, finally, their contribution to this series is not meant to remain within the confines of what is usually seen as the philosophy of science proper, or to be limited to the analysis of the scientific mode of reasoning and thinking: it is allowed, indeed encouraged, to encompass alter native, and on occasion even competing, modes of thought. 268 pp. Englisch.

Buch. Condizione: Neu. This item is printed on demand - it takes 3-4 days longer - Neuware -This book is a short text in linear algebra, intended for a one-term course. Lang discusses the relation between the geometry and the algebra underlying the subject, and includes sections on linear equations, matrices and Gaussian elimination, and vector spaces, linear maps, scalar products, determinants, and eigenvalues. The book contains a large number of exercises, some of the routine computational type, and others are conceptual. 304 pp. Englisch.