Mary Tiles: 3 books
The Philosophy of Set Theory
An Historical Introduction to Cantor's Paradise
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2012
A century ago, Georg Cantor demonstrated the possibility of a series of transfinite infinite numbers. His methods, unorthodox for the time, enabled him to derive theorems that established a mathematical reality for a hierarchy of infinities. Cantor's innovation was opposed, and ignored, by the establishment;...
Living in a Technological Culture
Human Tools and Human Values
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2005
Technology is no longer confined to the laboratory but has become an established part of our daily lives. Its sophistication offers us power beyond our human capacity which can either dazzle or threaten; it depends who is in control.
Living in a Technological Culture challenges traditionally held...
by Mary Tiles
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2013
A thorough account of the philosophy of mathematics. In a cogent account the author argues against the view that mathematics is solely logic.