Softcover. Amsterdam, North - Holland Publishing, 2nd pr., 1957, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Thin card covers in a lightly sunned dust jacket, 122 pages. Remarkable work in which the author aimed to collect some of the data available in the state of science of Bochenski's times and to arrange them in a kind of outline, which showed forth some of our indebtedness to Greek Logicians, and allowed the reader to see how their results were reached.
Softcover. Oxford, UK, Clarendon Press, Reprint, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, 306 pages. Softcover with light wear to wraps. Sunfade to spine. Spine faded. Small black mark on rear wrap, some lines highlighted on four pages. Light toning throughout, illustrated by tables & figures in bw.
Hardcover. NY, Oxford University Press, 2nd pr., 1986, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with mild fade to spine, b&w frontis., 474 pages. Volume 1 ONLY. Kurt Godel was the most outstanding logician of the twentieth century, famous for his work on the completeness of logic, the incompleteness of number theory, and the consistency of the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis. He is also noted for his work on constructivity, the decision problem, and the foundations of computation theory, as well as for the strong individuality of his writings on the philosophy of mathematics. Less well-known is his discovery of unusual cosmological models for Einstein's equations, permitting "time-travel" into the past. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Oxford UK, Oxford University Press, 1st Revised Ed., 1990, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket with mild fade to spine, b&w frontis., 407 pages. Volume 2 ONLY. Kurt Godel was the most outstanding logician of the twentieth century, famous for his work on the completeness of logic, the incompleteness of number theory, and the consistency of the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis. He is also noted for his work on constructivity, the decision problem, and the foundations of computation theory, as well as for the strong individuality of his writings on the philosophy of mathematics. Less well-known is his discovery of unusual cosmological models for Einstein's equations, permitting "time-travel" into the past. This second volume of a comprehensive edition of Godel's works collects together all his publications from 1938 to 1974. Includes introductory notes that provide extensive explanatory and historical commentary on each of the papers, a facing English translation of the one German original, and a complete bibliography.
Hardcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, 2nd pr., 2013, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a bright dust jacket, 332 pages, b&w illustrations. Einstein and the Quantum reveals for the first time the full significance of Albert Einstein's contributions to quantum theory. Einstein famously rejected quantum mechanics, observing that God does not play dice. But, in fact, he thought more about the nature of atoms, molecules, and the emission and absorption of light-the core of what we now know as quantum theory-than he did about relativity. A compelling blend of physics, biography, and the history of science, Einstein and the Quantum shares the untold story of how Einstein-not Max Planck or Niels Bohr-was the driving force behind early quantum theory. It paints a vivid portrait of the iconic physicist as he grappled with the apparently contradictory nature of the atomic world, in which its invisible constituents defy the categories of classical physics, behaving simultaneously as both particle and wave. And it demonstrates how Einstein's later work on the emission and absorption of light, and on atomic gases, led directly to Erwin Schrodinger's breakthrough to the modern form of quantum mechanics. The book sheds light on why Einstein ultimately renounced his own brilliant work on quantum theory, due to his deep belief in science as something objective and eternal. Clean copy.
Hardcover. Atlantic Highlands NJ, Humanities Press, 1st thus, 1978, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: Very Good, Hardcover in a lightly worn dust jacket with fading to spine, 287 pages. Frank Plumpton Ramsey (1903-1930) was a British mathematician who also made significant and precocious contributions in philosophy and economics before his death at the age of 26. He was a close friend of Ludwig Wittgenstein, and was instrumental in translating Wittgenstein's "Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus" into English, and in persuading Wittgenstein to return to philosophy and to Cambridge. This volume collects Ramsey's most important papers. The foundations of mathematics.--Mathematical logic.--On a problem of formal logic.--Universals.--Note on the preceding paper.--Facts and propositions.--Truth and probability.--Further considerations.--Last papers. A revised edition of the 1931 book. Name on front fly leaf otherwise clean.
Softcover. Princeton NJ, Princeton University Press, reprint, 1992, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 355 pages. Proclus was the last major Neo-Platonic philosopher of importance before the Academy was closed by the Christian emperor Justinian in the 6th century. He wrote many works, including long commentaries on Plato's dialogues and a commentary on the Elements by Euclid. This translation by Morrow, a leading Classicist, contains a good introductory essay on Proclus's philosophy of mathematics, along with other scholarly aids such as a biblography. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. UK, Clarendon Press/Oxford, 5th pr., 1971, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, dark blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine, 783 pages. Revised with corrections. An important and monumental work of relevance both to philosophy and mathematics.
Softcover. Cambridge UK, Cambridge University Press, 1st pbk., 2002, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 359 pages. In this major reevaluation of Isaac Newton's intellectual life, Betty Jo Teeter Dobbs shows how his pioneering work in mathematics, physics, and cosmology was intertwined with his study of alchemy. Professor Dobbs argues that to Newton those several intellectual pursuits were all ways of approaching Truth, and that Newton's primary goal was not the study of nature for its own sake but rather an attempt to establish a unified system that would have included both natural and divine principles. She also argues that Newton's methodology was much broader than modern scholars have previously supposed, and she traces the evolution of his thought on the intertwined problems of the microcosmic "vegetable spirit" of alchemy and the "cause" of the cosmic principle of gravitation. Clean, bright copy.
Hardcover. Oxford UK, Clarendon Press, reprint, 1964, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Hardcover, blue cloth with gilt lettering on spine. 316 pages including index. First published in 1952. Clean, bright copy.
Softcover. Indianapolis, Hackett Publishing, reprint, 1989, Book: Very Good, Dust Jacket: None, Softcover, 358 pages. This volume includes Whewell's seminal studies of the logic of induction (with his critique of Mill's theory), arguments for his realist view that science discovers necessary truths about nature, and exercises in the epistemology and ontology of science. The book sets forth a coherent statement of a historically important philosophy of science whose influence has never been greater: every one of Whewell's fundamental ideas about the philosophy of science is presented here. Clean, bright copy.
