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Entropy and Diversity - The Axiomatic Approach (Paperback): Tom Leinster Entropy and Diversity - The Axiomatic Approach (Paperback)
Tom Leinster
R1,330 Discovery Miles 13 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The global biodiversity crisis is one of humanity's most urgent problems, but even quantifying biological diversity is a difficult mathematical and conceptual challenge. This book brings new mathematical rigour to the ongoing debate. It was born of research in category theory, is given strength by information theory, and is fed by the ancient field of functional equations. It applies the power of the axiomatic method to a biological problem of pressing concern, but it also presents new theorems that stand up as mathematics in their own right, independently of any application. The question 'what is diversity?' has surprising mathematical depth, and this book covers a wide breadth of mathematics, from functional equations to geometric measure theory, from probability theory to number theory. Despite this range, the mathematical prerequisites are few: the main narrative thread of this book requires no more than an undergraduate course in analysis.

Entropy and Diversity - The Axiomatic Approach (Hardcover): Tom Leinster Entropy and Diversity - The Axiomatic Approach (Hardcover)
Tom Leinster
R3,450 Discovery Miles 34 500 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The global biodiversity crisis is one of humanity's most urgent problems, but even quantifying biological diversity is a difficult mathematical and conceptual challenge. This book brings new mathematical rigour to the ongoing debate. It was born of research in category theory, is given strength by information theory, and is fed by the ancient field of functional equations. It applies the power of the axiomatic method to a biological problem of pressing concern, but it also presents new theorems that stand up as mathematics in their own right, independently of any application. The question 'what is diversity?' has surprising mathematical depth, and this book covers a wide breadth of mathematics, from functional equations to geometric measure theory, from probability theory to number theory. Despite this range, the mathematical prerequisites are few: the main narrative thread of this book requires no more than an undergraduate course in analysis.

Essentials of Mathematical Thinking (Paperback): Steven G. Krantz Essentials of Mathematical Thinking (Paperback)
Steven G. Krantz
R2,048 Discovery Miles 20 480 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Essentials of Mathematical Thinking addresses the growing need to better comprehend mathematics today. Increasingly, our world is driven by mathematics in all aspects of life. The book is an excellent introduction to the world of mathematics for students not majoring in mathematical studies. The author has written this book in an enticing, rich manner that will engage students and introduce new paradigms of thought. Careful readers will develop critical thinking skills which will help them compete in today's world. The book explains: What goes behind a Google search algorithm How to calculate the odds in a lottery The value of Big Data How the nefarious Ponzi scheme operates Instructors will treasure the book for its ability to make the field of mathematics more accessible and alluring with relevant topics and helpful graphics. The author also encourages readers to see the beauty of mathematics and how it relates to their lives in meaningful ways.

Large Cardinals, Determinacy and Other Topics - The Cabal Seminar, Volume IV (Hardcover): Alexander S. Kechris, Benedikt Loewe,... Large Cardinals, Determinacy and Other Topics - The Cabal Seminar, Volume IV (Hardcover)
Alexander S. Kechris, Benedikt Loewe, John R. Steel
R3,405 Discovery Miles 34 050 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The proceedings of the Los Angeles Caltech-UCLA 'Cabal Seminar' were originally published in the 1970s and 1980s. Large Cardinals, Determinacy and Other Topics is the final volume in a series of four books collecting the seminal papers from the original volumes together with extensive unpublished material, new papers on related topics and discussion of research developments since the publication of the original volumes. This final volume contains Parts VII and VIII of the series. Part VII focuses on 'Extensions of AD, models with choice', while Part VIII ('Other topics') collects material important to the Cabal that does not fit neatly into one of its main themes. These four volumes will be a necessary part of the book collection of every set theorist.

Fast Track to Forcing (Paperback): Mirna Dzamonja Fast Track to Forcing (Paperback)
Mirna Dzamonja
R1,208 Discovery Miles 12 080 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This quick yet detailed introduction to set theory and forcing builds the reader's intuition about it as much as the mathematical detail. Intuition, rather absent from the existing literature on the subject, here plays a large role. The reader will not only learn the facts, but will understand why they are true and will be brought to ask: what else could be true? Having presented forcing in Part I, the second part of the book discusses contemporary issues in the theory of forcing. It includes known and some previously unpublished results as well as many open questions. This is ideal for those who want to start a research career in forcing but do not have a personal interlocutor. Obviously, not everything about forcing is in this book. Many references are included to help the reader further explore the vast amount of research literature available on the subject.

Fast Track to Forcing (Hardcover): Mirna Dzamonja Fast Track to Forcing (Hardcover)
Mirna Dzamonja
R2,349 Discovery Miles 23 490 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This quick yet detailed introduction to set theory and forcing builds the reader's intuition about it as much as the mathematical detail. Intuition, rather absent from the existing literature on the subject, here plays a large role. The reader will not only learn the facts, but will understand why they are true and will be brought to ask: what else could be true? Having presented forcing in Part I, the second part of the book discusses contemporary issues in the theory of forcing. It includes known and some previously unpublished results as well as many open questions. This is ideal for those who want to start a research career in forcing but do not have a personal interlocutor. Obviously, not everything about forcing is in this book. Many references are included to help the reader further explore the vast amount of research literature available on the subject.

Set Theory and Logic (Paperback, New edition): Robert R. Stoll Set Theory and Logic (Paperback, New edition)
Robert R. Stoll
R606 R542 Discovery Miles 5 420 Save R64 (11%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

Lucidly and gradually explains sets and relations, the natural number sequence and its generalization, extension of natural numbers to real numbers, logic, informal axiomatic mathematics, Boolean algebras, informal axiomatic set theory, several algebraic theories, and first-order theories. Its clarity makes this book excellent for self-study.

Axiomatic Set Theory (Paperback, New edition): Patrick Suppes Axiomatic Set Theory (Paperback, New edition)
Patrick Suppes 1
R441 R400 Discovery Miles 4 000 Save R41 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days

In one of the finest treatments for upper undergraduate and graduate level students, Professor Suppes presents axiomatic set theory: the basic paradoxes and history of set theory, and advanced topics such as relations and functions, equipollence, finite sets and cardinal numbers, rational and real numbers and more. Exercises. References. Indexes.

How to Prove It - A Structured Approach (Hardcover, 3rd Revised edition): Daniel J. Velleman How to Prove It - A Structured Approach (Hardcover, 3rd Revised edition)
Daniel J. Velleman
R2,930 Discovery Miles 29 300 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Proofs play a central role in advanced mathematics and theoretical computer science, yet many students struggle the first time they take a course in which proofs play a significant role. This bestselling text's third edition helps students transition from solving problems to proving theorems by teaching them the techniques needed to read and write proofs. Featuring over 150 new exercises and a new chapter on number theory, this new edition introduces students to the world of advanced mathematics through the mastery of proofs. The book begins with the basic concepts of logic and set theory to familiarize students with the language of mathematics and how it is interpreted. These concepts are used as the basis for an analysis of techniques that can be used to build up complex proofs step by step, using detailed 'scratch work' sections to expose the machinery of proofs about numbers, sets, relations, and functions. Assuming no background beyond standard high school mathematics, this book will be useful to anyone interested in logic and proofs: computer scientists, philosophers, linguists, and, of course, mathematicians.

An Invitation to Model Theory (Hardcover): Jonathan Kirby An Invitation to Model Theory (Hardcover)
Jonathan Kirby
R1,710 Discovery Miles 17 100 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Model theory begins with an audacious idea: to consider statements about mathematical structures as mathematical objects of study in their own right. While inherently important as a tool of mathematical logic, it also enjoys connections to and applications in diverse branches of mathematics, including algebra, number theory and analysis. Despite this, traditional introductions to model theory assume a graduate-level background of the reader. In this innovative textbook, Jonathan Kirby brings model theory to an undergraduate audience. The highlights of basic model theory are illustrated through examples from specific structures familiar from undergraduate mathematics, paying particular attention to definable sets throughout. With numerous exercises of varying difficulty, this is an accessible introduction to model theory and its place in mathematics.

Chow Rings, Decomposition of the Diagonal, and the Topology of Families (AM-187) (Hardcover): Claire Voisin Chow Rings, Decomposition of the Diagonal, and the Topology of Families (AM-187) (Hardcover)
Claire Voisin
R4,387 Discovery Miles 43 870 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

In this book, Claire Voisin provides an introduction to algebraic cycles on complex algebraic varieties, to the major conjectures relating them to cohomology, and even more precisely to Hodge structures on cohomology. The volume is intended for both students and researchers, and not only presents a survey of the geometric methods developed in the last thirty years to understand the famous Bloch-Beilinson conjectures, but also examines recent work by Voisin. The book focuses on two central objects: the diagonal of a variety--and the partial Bloch-Srinivas type decompositions it may have depending on the size of Chow groups--as well as its small diagonal, which is the right object to consider in order to understand the ring structure on Chow groups and cohomology. An exploration of a sampling of recent works by Voisin looks at the relation, conjectured in general by Bloch and Beilinson, between the coniveau of general complete intersections and their Chow groups and a very particular property satisfied by the Chow ring of K3 surfaces and conjecturally by hyper-Kahler manifolds. In particular, the book delves into arguments originating in Nori's work that have been further developed by others."

Descriptive Set Theory and Forcing - How to Prove Theorems about Borel Sets the Hard Way (Hardcover): Arnold W. Miller Descriptive Set Theory and Forcing - How to Prove Theorems about Borel Sets the Hard Way (Hardcover)
Arnold W. Miller
R3,413 Discovery Miles 34 130 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Since their inception, the Perspectives in Logic and Lecture Notes in Logic series have published seminal works by leading logicians. Many of the original books in the series have been unavailable for years, but they are now in print once again. In this volume, the fourth publication in the Lecture Notes in Logic series, Miller develops the necessary features of the theory of descriptive sets in order to present a new proof of Louveau's separation theorem for analytic sets. While some background in mathematical logic and set theory is assumed, the material is based on a graduate course given by the author at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, and is thus accessible to students and researchers alike in these areas, as well as in mathematical analysis.

Naive Set Theory (Paperback): Paul R. Halmos Naive Set Theory (Paperback)
Paul R. Halmos 1
R330 R299 Discovery Miles 2 990 Save R31 (9%) Ships in 9 - 17 working days
Lectures on Infinitary Model Theory (Hardcover): David Marker Lectures on Infinitary Model Theory (Hardcover)
David Marker
R3,419 Discovery Miles 34 190 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Infinitary logic, the logic of languages with infinitely long conjunctions, plays an important role in model theory, recursion theory and descriptive set theory. This book is the first modern introduction to the subject in forty years, and will bring students and researchers in all areas of mathematical logic up to the threshold of modern research. The classical topics of back-and-forth systems, model existence techniques, indiscernibles and end extensions are covered before more modern topics are surveyed. Zilber's categoricity theorem for quasiminimal excellent classes is proved and an application is given to covers of multiplicative groups. Infinitary methods are also used to study uncountable models of counterexamples to Vaught's conjecture, and effective aspects of infinitary model theory are reviewed, including an introduction to Montalban's recent work on spectra of Vaught counterexamples. Self-contained introductions to effective descriptive set theory and hyperarithmetic theory are provided, as is an appendix on admissible model theory.

The Banach-Tarski Paradox (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition): Grzegorz Tomkowicz, Stan Wagon The Banach-Tarski Paradox (Hardcover, 2nd Revised edition)
Grzegorz Tomkowicz, Stan Wagon
R2,891 Discovery Miles 28 910 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The Banach-Tarski Paradox is a most striking mathematical construction: it asserts that a solid ball can be taken apart into finitely many pieces that can be rearranged using rigid motions to form a ball twice as large. This volume explores the consequences of the paradox for measure theory and its connections with group theory, geometry, set theory, and logic. This new edition of a classic book unifies contemporary research on the paradox. It has been updated with many new proofs and results, and discussions of the many problems that remain unsolved. Among the new results presented are several unusual paradoxes in the hyperbolic plane, one of which involves the shapes of Escher's famous 'Angel and Devils' woodcut. A new chapter is devoted to a complete proof of the remarkable result that the circle can be squared using set theory, a problem that had been open for over sixty years.

Appalachian Set Theory - 2006-2012 (Paperback, New): James Cummings, Ernest Schimmerling Appalachian Set Theory - 2006-2012 (Paperback, New)
James Cummings, Ernest Schimmerling
R2,025 Discovery Miles 20 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This volume takes its name from a popular series of intensive mathematics workshops hosted at institutions in Appalachia and surrounding areas. At these meetings, internationally prominent set theorists give one-day lectures that focus on important new directions, methods, tools and results so that non-experts can begin to master these and incorporate them into their own research. Each chapter in this volume was written by the workshop leaders in collaboration with select student participants, and together they represent most of the meetings from the period 2006-2012. Topics covered include forcing and large cardinals, descriptive set theory, and applications of set theoretic ideas in group theory and analysis, making this volume essential reading for a wide range of researchers and graduate students.

Basic Category Theory (Hardcover): Tom Leinster Basic Category Theory (Hardcover)
Tom Leinster
R1,606 Discovery Miles 16 060 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

At the heart of this short introduction to category theory is the idea of a universal property, important throughout mathematics. After an introductory chapter giving the basic definitions, separate chapters explain three ways of expressing universal properties: via adjoint functors, representable functors, and limits. A final chapter ties all three together. The book is suitable for use in courses or for independent study. Assuming relatively little mathematical background, it is ideal for beginning graduate students or advanced undergraduates learning category theory for the first time. For each new categorical concept, a generous supply of examples is provided, taken from different parts of mathematics. At points where the leap in abstraction is particularly great (such as the Yoneda lemma), the reader will find careful and extensive explanations. Copious exercises are included.

Advanced Engineering Mathematics (Hardcover, 7th Revised edition): Dennis G. Zill Advanced Engineering Mathematics (Hardcover, 7th Revised edition)
Dennis G. Zill
R7,374 R6,414 Discovery Miles 64 140 Save R960 (13%) Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This package includes the printed hardcover book and access to the Navigate 2 Companion Website. The seventh edition of Advanced Engineering Mathematics provides learners with a modern and comprehensive compendium of topics that are most often covered in courses in engineering mathematics, and is extremely flexible to meet the unique needs of courses ranging from ordinary differential equations, to vector calculus, to partial differential equations. Acclaimed author, Dennis G. Zill's accessible writing style and strong pedagogical aids, guide students through difficult concepts with thoughtful explanations, clear examples, interesting applications, and contributed project problems.

Finite Ordered Sets - Concepts, Results and Uses (Hardcover, New): Nathalie Caspard, Bruno Leclerc, Bernard Monjardet Finite Ordered Sets - Concepts, Results and Uses (Hardcover, New)
Nathalie Caspard, Bruno Leclerc, Bernard Monjardet
R2,775 Discovery Miles 27 750 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Ordered sets are ubiquitous in mathematics and have significant applications in computer science, statistics, biology and the social sciences. As the first book to deal exclusively with finite ordered sets, this book will be welcomed by graduate students and researchers in all of these areas. Beginning with definitions of key concepts and fundamental results (Dilworth's and Sperner's theorem, interval and semiorders, Galois connection, duality with distributive lattices, coding and dimension theory), the authors then present applications of these structures in fields such as preference modelling and aggregation, operational research and management, cluster and concept analysis, and data mining. Exercises are included at the end of each chapter with helpful hints provided for some of the most difficult examples. The authors also point to further topics of ongoing research.

Wadge Degrees and Projective Ordinals - The Cabal Seminar, Volume II (Hardcover, New): Alexander S. Kechris, Benedikt Loewe,... Wadge Degrees and Projective Ordinals - The Cabal Seminar, Volume II (Hardcover, New)
Alexander S. Kechris, Benedikt Loewe, John R. Steel
R4,376 Discovery Miles 43 760 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

The proceedings of the Los Angeles Caltech-UCLA 'Cabal Seminar' were originally published in the 1970s and 1980s. Wadge Degrees and Projective Ordinals is the second of a series of four books collecting the seminal papers from the original volumes together with extensive unpublished material, new papers on related topics and discussion of research developments since the publication of the original volumes. Focusing on the subjects of 'Wadge Degrees and Pointclasses' (Part III) and 'Projective Ordinals' (Part IV), each of the two sections is preceded by an introductory survey putting the papers into present context. These four volumes will be a necessary part of the book collection of every set theorist.

The Foundations of Mathematics in the Theory of Sets (Paperback): John P. Mayberry The Foundations of Mathematics in the Theory of Sets (Paperback)
John P. Mayberry
R2,025 Discovery Miles 20 250 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

This 2001 book presents a unified approach to the foundations of mathematics in the theory of sets, covering both conventional and finitary (constructive) mathematics. It is based on a philosophical, historical and mathematical analysis of the relation between the concepts of 'natural number' and 'set'. This leads to an investigation of the logic of quantification over the universe of sets and a discussion of its role in second order logic, as well as in the analysis of proof by induction and definition by recursion. The subject matter of the book falls on the borderline between philosophy and mathematics, and should appeal to both philosophers and mathematicians with an interest in the foundations of mathematics.

An Investigation of the Laws of Thought, on Which Are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities (Paperback):... An Investigation of the Laws of Thought, on Which Are Founded the Mathematical Theories of Logic and Probabilities (Paperback)
George Boole
R541 Discovery Miles 5 410 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Naive Set Theory (Paperback): Paul R. Halmos Naive Set Theory (Paperback)
Paul R. Halmos
R291 Discovery Miles 2 910 Ships in 10 - 15 working days
Set Theory and its Philosophy - A Critical Introduction (Paperback, New): Michael Potter Set Theory and its Philosophy - A Critical Introduction (Paperback, New)
Michael Potter
R1,033 Discovery Miles 10 330 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Michael Potter presents a comprehensive new philosophical introduction to set theory. Anyone wishing to work on the logical foundations of mathematics must understand set theory, which lies at its heart. Potter offers a thorough account of cardinal and ordinal arithmetic, and the various axiom candidates. He discusses in detail the project of set-theoretic reduction, which aims to interpret the rest of mathematics in terms of set theory. The key question here is how to deal with the paradoxes that bedevil set theory. Potter offers a strikingly simple version of the most widely accepted response to the paradoxes, which classifies sets by means of a hierarchy of levels. What makes the book unique is that it interweaves a careful presentation of the technical material with a penetrating philosophical critique. Potter does not merely expound the theory dogmatically but at every stage discusses in detail the reasons that can be offered for believing it to be true. Set Theory and its Philosophy is a key text for philosophy, mathematical logic, and computer science.

Logic, Induction and Sets (Hardcover, New): Thomas Forster Logic, Induction and Sets (Hardcover, New)
Thomas Forster
R3,074 Discovery Miles 30 740 Ships in 12 - 19 working days

Philosophical considerations, which are often ignored or treated casually, are given careful consideration in this introduction. Thomas Forster places the notion of inductively defined sets (recursive datatypes) at the center of his exposition resulting in an original analysis of well established topics. The presentation illustrates difficult points and includes many exercises. Little previous knowledge of logic is required and only a knowledge of standard undergraduate mathematics is assumed.

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