The Importance of Being Fuzzy : : And Other Insights from the Border between Math and Computers /

The Importance of Being Fuzzy : : And Other Insights from the Border between Math and Computers / / Arturo Sangalli.

How has computer science changed mathematical thinking? In this first ever comprehensive survey of the subject for popular science readers, Arturo Sangalli explains how computers have brought a new practicality to mathematics and mathematical applications. By using fuzzy logic and related concepts,...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
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Sangalli, Arturo,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]
©1999
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • To the Reader
  • PART ONE. BLURRED VISIONS
  • CHAPTER ONE. Classes with Uncertain Borders
  • CHAPTER TWO. Fuzzy Does It
  • PART TWO. LIMITS
  • CHAPTER THREE. The Limits of Classical Computing
  • CHAPTER FOUR. The Limits of Formal Reasoning
  • PART THREE. NATURAL SOLUTIONS
  • CHAPTER FIVE. Net Gains
  • CHAPTER SIX. Solutions via Evolution
  • AFTERWORD
  • APPENDIX 1. Fuzzy Inferences
  • APPENDIX 2. The Functions of Natural Numbers Cannot Be Enumerated
  • APPENDIX 3. The Halting Problem Is Unsolvable
  • APPENDIX 4. Learning with the Back-Propagation Algorithm
  • Index

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