书目名称 | The Logic of the Plausible and Some of its Applications |
编辑 | René Leclercq |
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描述 | So simple and imperfect as it may appear this book has made use of knowledge on invention and discovery accumu lated during a lifetime. Those persons who would be tempted to emphasize only its imperfections should read the correspondence exchanged between Cantor and Dedekind at the end of the nineteenth century; they would then realize how difficult it was, even for an outstanding man, the creator of the set theory, to propose impeccable results in a completely new field. The field I have chosen here is plausibility. I have proposed an intuitive, some would say a naive, presentation as I want to reach as large an audience as possible and because I personally believe that it is easier to axiomatize a mathematical theory precisely than to dis cover it and enunciate its key theorems. Professor Polya said: "The truly creative mathematician is a good guesser first and a good prover afterward. " For centuries a formalized generalized logic was found necessary and many attempts have been made to build it. vi Preface Mine is based on plausibility which covers with precision a wider field than probability and makes the formalization of analogy and generalization possible. As Laplace said: |
出版日期 | Book 1974 |
关键词 | analogy; knowledge; logic; probability; truth |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0742-6 |
isbn_softcover | 978-1-4684-0744-0 |
isbn_ebook | 978-1-4684-0742-6 |
copyright | Plenum Publishing Company Ltd 1974 |