Vagueness in the Exact Sciences : : Impacts in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Medicine, Engineering and Computing / / ed. by Apostolos Syropoulos, Basil K. Papadopoulos.
The book starts with the assumption that vagueness is a fundamental property of this world. From a philosophical account of vagueness via the presentation of alternative mathematics of vagueness, the subsequent chapters explore how vagueness manifests itself in the various exact sciences: physics, c...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- Contents
- List of Contributing Authors
- 1 Vagueness from the philosophical point of view
- 2 Vague mathematics
- 3 Vague theory of computation
- 4 Fuzzy hypotheses tests with crisp data using nonasymptotic fuzzy estimators
- 5 Fuzzy sets in quantum mechanics
- 6 Vagueness in chemistry
- 7 Vagueness in medicine: on indistinct phenomena, vague concepts, and uncertain knowledge
- 8 Vagueness in technology
- 9 The semiotic topos of vagueness
- Index of notation
- Index of people