Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, Volume 2 : : Logic, Symbolic and mathematical / / G. Polya.
A guide to the practical art of plausible reasoning, this book has relevance in every field of intellectual activity. Professor Polya, a world-famous mathematician from Stanford University, uses mathematics to show how hunches and guesses play an important part in even the most rigorously deductive...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021] ©1954 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- PREFACE
- HINTS TO THE READER
- Contents
- Volume II Patterns of Plausible Inference
- XII SOME CONSPICUOUS PATTERNS
- XIII FURTHER PATTERNS AND FIRST LINKS
- XIV CHANCE, THE EVER-PRESENT RIVAL CONJECTURE
- XV THE CALCULUS OF PROBABILITY AND THE LOGIC OF PLAUSIBLE REASONING
- XVI PLAUSIBLE REASONING IN INVENTION AND INSTRUCTION
- Solutions
- Bibliography
- Appendix
- I. Heuristic Reasoning in the Theory of Numbers
- II. Additional Comments, Problems, and Solutions