Logic
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Ludwig Wittgenstein: The Duty of Genius
$25.00 Add to cart“Great philosophical biographies can be counted on one hand. Monk’s life of Wittgenstein is such a one.”–The Christian Science Monitor.
- Author: Monk, Ray
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: November 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0140159959
- Language: English
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Good Thinking: Why Flawed Logic Puts Us All at Risk and How Critical Thinking Can Save the World
$17.95 Read morePublisher’s Note: Good Thinking was previously published in the UK as The Irrational Ape.
In our ever-more-polarized society, there’s at least one thing we still agree on: The world is overrun with mi… [more below]
- Author: Grimes, David Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: March 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1615197931
- Language: English
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Is God a Mathematician?
$20.00 Add to cartBestselling author and astrophysicist Mario Livio examines the lives and theories of history’s greatest mathematicians to ask how–if mathematics is an abstract construction of the human mind–it can … [more below]
- Author: Livio, Mario
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 19 2010
- ISBN10: 0743294068
- Language: English
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Logically Fallacious: The Ultimate Collection of Over 300 Logical Fallacies (Academic Edition)
$49.95 Add to cartThis book is a crash course in effective reasoning, meant to catapult you into a world where you start to see things how they really are, not how you think they are. The focus of this book is on logic
- Author: Bennett, Bo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 454
- Publish Date: April 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1456624539
- Language: English
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Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes
$19.00 Add to cartThe New York Times bestselling guide to thinking like literature’s greatest detective. “Steven Pinker meets Sir Arthur Conan Doyle” (Boston Globe), by the author of The Confidence Game.
No fictional c
- Author: Konnikova, Maria
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 31 2013
- ISBN10: 014312434X
- Language: English
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99 Variations on a Proof
$21.95 Add to cartAn exploration of mathematical style through 99 different proofs of the same theorem
This book offers a multifaceted perspective on mathematics by demonstrating 99 different proofs of the same theorem- Author: Ording, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 0691218978
- Language: English
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Mastering Logical Fallacies: The Definitive Guide to Flawless Rhetoric and Bulletproof Logic
$16.99 Add to cart“If I have learned anything in ten years of formal debating, it is that arguments are no different: without a good understanding of the rules and tactics, you are likely to do poorly and be beaten.”—… [more below]
- Author: Withey, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: June 21 2016
- ISBN10: 1623157102
- Language: English
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Category Theory in Context
$35.00 Read more“The book is extremely pleasant to read, with masterfully crafted exercises and examples that create a beautiful and unique thread of presentation leading the reader safely into the wonderfully rich, … [more below]
- Series: Aurora: Dover Modern Math Originals
- Author: Riehl, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 16 2016
- ISBN10: 048680903X
- Language: English
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Alice in Puzzle-Land: A Carrollian Tale for Children Under Eighty
$12.95 Add to cartCharacters from Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass populate these 88 puzzles involving word play, logic and metalogic, and philosophical paradoxes. The charmingly illustrated challenges range fr… [more below]
- Series: Dover Recreational Math
- Author: Smullyan, Raymond M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: December 08 2011
- ISBN10: 0486482006
- Language: English
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Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy
$12.95 Add to cartSeminal work by great modern philosopher and mathematician focuses on certain issues of mathematical logic that Russell believed invalidated much traditional and contemporary philosophy. Topics includ… [more below]
- Author: Russell, Bertrand
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 14 1993
- ISBN10: 0486277240
- Language: English
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Naming and Necessity
$59.92 Add to cart- Author: Kripke, Saul A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 01 2003
- ISBN10: 0631128018
- Language: English
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Logic: A Complete Introduction
$19.99 Add to cartUnderstand Logic is a comprehensive introduction to this fascinating though sometimes challenging subject.
As well as looking at logic in theoretical terms the book considers its everyday uses and dem- Series: Complete Introductions
- Author: Lee, Siu-Fan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 25 2017
- ISBN10: 1473608430
- Language: English
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Gödel’s Theorem: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartbVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring /b
Kurt Gödel first published his celebrated theorem, showing that no axiomatization can determine the whole truth and nothing but the truth con- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Moore, A. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: February 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0192847856
- Language: English
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How to Bake Pi: An Edible Exploration of the Mathematics of Mathematics
$19.99 Add to cartOne of the world’s most creative mathematicians finds the meaning of mathematics in the kitchen in this “whimsical…rigorous and insightful” (New York Times) book
What is math? How exactly does it w- Author: Cheng, Eugenia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 10 2016
- ISBN10: 0465097677
- Language: English
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Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Gödel
$22.99 Add to cartProbing the life and work of Kurt G?del, Incompleteness indelibly portrays the tortured genius whose vision rocked the stability of mathematical reasoning–and brought him to the edge of madness.
Autho… [more below]
- Series: Great Discoveries (Paperback) #0
- Author: Goldstein, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: February 17 2006
- ISBN10: 0393327604
- Language: English
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Twenty Years of a New Kind of Science
$44.95 Add to cartWhen Stephen Wolfram’s groundbreaking A New Kind of Science was published in 2002, its exploration and analysis of the computational universe of simple programs launched a scientific revolution. Twent… [more below]
- Author: Wolfram, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1579550495
- Language: English
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Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity
$17.99 Add to cartPart history, part philosophy, part love letter to the study of mathematics, Everything and More is an illuminating tour of infinity. With his infectious curiosity and trademark verbal pyrotechnics, D
- Author: Wallace, David Foster
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 04 2010
- ISBN10: 0393339289
- Language: English
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Language, Truth and Logic
$9.95 Add to cart“A delightful book … I should like to have written it myself.” — Bertrand Russell
First published in 1936, this first full-length presentation in English of the Logical Positivism of Carnap, Neurath- Series: Dover Books on Western Philosophy
- Author: Ayer, Alfred Jules
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 01 1952
- ISBN10: 0486200108
- Language: English
