Conversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics
by Changeux, Jean-Pierre; Connes, Alain
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0691087598
- ISBN 13
- 9780691087597
- Seller
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Kraków, Poland
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About This Item
Princeton University Press, 1995 8vo (22 cm), XII, 261 pp. Publisher's cloth and dust jacket (top edge slightly stained). "Do numbers and the other objects of mathematics enjoy a timeless existence independent of human minds, or are they the products of cerebral invention? Do we discover them, as Plato supposed and many others have believed since, or do we construct them? Does mathematics constitute a universal language that in principle would permit human beings to communicate with extraterrestrial civilizations elsewhere in the universe, or is it merely an earthly language that owes its accidental existence to the peculiar evolution of neuronal networks in our brains? Does the physical world actually obey mathematical laws, or does it seem to conform to them simply because physicists have increasingly been able to make mathematical sense of it? Jean-Pierre Changeux, an internationally renowned neurobiologist, and Alain Connes, one of the most eminent living mathematicians, find themselves deeply divided by these questions." (from the blurb)
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- Bookseller
- Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko (PL)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 008275
- Title
- Conversations on Mind, Matter, and Mathematics
- Author
- Changeux, Jean-Pierre; Connes, Alain
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 0691087598
- ISBN 13
- 9780691087597
- Publisher
- Princeton University Press
- Place of Publication
- Princeton, New Jersey
- Date Published
- 1995
- Bookseller catalogs
- Philosophy;
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Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
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Kraków
About Leopolis Volodymyr Dmyterko
Specializing in mathematical sciences, Church Slavonic and Slavic books, Eastern European history, travels and topography, bibliography, history and art of the book, history of libraries and collections
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