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James Roy Newman

    James R. Newman était un mathématicien et historien des mathématiques américain. Il a également exercé le droit à New York de 1929 à 1941. Pendant et après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, il a occupé des postes gouvernementaux importants, notamment celui de Chief Intelligence Officer à l'ambassade des États-Unis à Londres et d'Assistant Spécial du Sous-secrétaire à la Guerre. Il a notamment contribué à la rédaction de l'Atomic Energy Act de 1946. Newman a rejoint le comité de rédaction de Scientific American en 1948. Il est également crédité pour avoir inventé et décrit pour la première fois le concept mathématique de « googol » dans son livre influent, « Mathematics and The Imagination ».

    James Roy Newman
    Mathematics and the Imagination
    Godel's Proof
    • Godel's Proof

      • 120pages
      • 5 heures de lecture

      Godel's Proof was first published in the US in 1958. In 1931 there appeared in a German scientific periodical a relatively short paper with the forbidding title "On Formally Undecidable propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems". Its author was Kurt Godel, then a young mathematician of 25 at the University of Vienna who since 1938 was a permanent member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. The paper is a milestone in the history of logic and mathematics. When Harvard University awarded Godel an honorary degree, the citation described the work as one of the most important advances in logic in modern times. At the time of its appearance, however, neither the title of Godel's paper nor its content was intelligible to most mathematicians.

      Godel's Proof2001
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    • Vol-, Pages 397 It is the reproduction of the original edition published long back in Black & White format. . Hardcover with sewing binding with glossy laminated multi-Colour Dust Cover, Printed on high quality Paper, professionally processed without changing its contents.We found this book important for the readers who want to know about our old treasure so we brought it back to the shelves. Print on Demand.

      Mathematics and the Imagination1968
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