Overview
Onc service malhemalics has rendered Ihe "Et moil ...- si ravait au oomment en revcnir. je n'y serais point aU': ' human race. It has put common sense back whcre it belongs, on the topmost shelf next Iules Verne to the dUlty canister IabeUed 'discarded n- sense'. The series is divergent; therefore we may be Eric T. BeU able to do something with it. O. H eaviside Mathematics is a tool for thought, A highly necessary tool in a world where both feedback and non- linearities abound. Similarly, all kinds of parts of mathematics serve as tools for other pans and for other sciences. Applying a simple rewriting rule to the quote on the right above one finds such statements as: 'One service topology has rendered mathematical physics .. .'; 'One service logic has rendered com- puter science .. .'; 'One service category theory has rendered mathematics .. .'. All arguably true. And all statements obtainable this way form part of the raison d'are of this series.
- | Author: N. Ja Vilenkin
- | Publisher: Springer
- | Publication Date: Sep 30, 1992
- | Number of Pages: 634 pages
- | Binding: Hardback or Cased Book
- | ISBN-10: 079231493X
- | ISBN-13: 9780792314936
