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PHILIP J. DAVIS - Descartes' Dream

Title: Descartes' Dream
Description: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. Paperback. Pp: 321. Rationalist philosopher and mathematician Rene Descartes visualized a world unified by mathematics, in which all intellectual issues could be resolved rationally by local computation. This series of provocative essays takes a modern look at the seventeenth-century thinker's dream, examining the physical and intellectual influences of mathematics on society, particularly in light of technological advances. ISBN: 9780395431542. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.

Keywords: 9780395431542

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- Book number: 1720360

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