Cracking the Monolith: U.S. Policy Against the Sino-Soviet Alliance, 1949-1955 - Couverture rigide

Mayers, David

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0807112879 ISBN 13 : 9780807112878

Editeur : Louisiana State University Press, 1986

Synopsis

Book by Mayers David Allan

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Does the Scientist create Science f Professor Bados of Budapest in his report to the Hungarian Academy of Science on the award to Poincar of the Bolyai prize of ten thousand crowns speaking of him as at the present moment unquestionably the most powerful investigator in the domain of mathematics and mathematical physics recognizes in him the intuitive genius drawing the inspiration for his wide-reaching researches from the exhaustless fountain of geometric and physical intuition yet working this inspiration out in detail with marvelous logical keenness. With his brilliant creative genius is combined the capacity for sharp and successful generalization pushing far out the boundaries of thought in the most widely different domains, so that his works must be ranked with the greatest mathematical achievements of all time. Finally says Rados, permit me to make especial mention of his last, his intensely interesting book, The Value of Science, in which he in a way has laid down the scientists creed. Now what is this creed? Sense may act as stimulus, as suggestive, yet not to awaken a dormant depiction, or to educe the conception of an archetypal form, but rather to strike the hour for creation, to summon to work a sculptor capable of smoothing a Venus of Milo out of the formless clay. Knowledge is not a gift of bare experience, nor even made solely out of experience. The creative activity of mind is in mathematics particularly clear. The axioms of geometry are conventions, disguised definitions or unprovable hypotheses precreated by auto-active animal and human minds. Bertrand Russell says of projective geometry: It takes nothing from experience, and has, like arithmetic, a creature of the pure intellect for its object. It deals with an object whose properties are logically deduced from its definition, not empirically discovered from data. Then does the scientist
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Louisiana State University Press
• Date d'édition: 1986
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0807112879
• ISBN 13: 9780807112878
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible