Conversations on mind, matter, and mathematics / Jean-Pierre Changeux, Alain Connes ; edited and tra...
Conversations on mind, matter, and mathematics / Jean-Pierre Changeux, Alain Connes ; edited and tra...
Conversations on mind, matter, and mathematics / Jean-Pierre Changeux, Alain Connes ; edited and translated by M.B. DeBevoise.
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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1995.
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T0391630
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Language
English
French
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Physical Description
Physical content
xii, 260 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Contents
1. Mathematics and the Brain -- 2. Plato as Materialist? -- 3. Nature Made to Order -- 4. The Neuronal Mathematician -- 5. Darwin among the Mathematicians -- 6. Thinking Machines -- 7. The Real and the Rational -- Epilogue: Ethical Questions.
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Publisher
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1995.
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Date Published
c1995.
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Summary
This vivid record of profound disagreement, and, at the same time, passionate search for mutual understanding, follows in the modern tradition of Poincare, Turing, Hadamard, and von Neumann in probing the limits of human rationality and intellectual possibility. Why order should exist in the world at all - and why it should be comprehensible by hum...
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Conversations on mind, matter, and mathematics / Jean-Pierre Changeux, Alain Connes ; edited and translated by M.B. DeBevoise.
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Includes index.
Transferred from N510.1/39.
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c1995.
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T0391630
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74VMBVPLXPKZ
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ISBN
0691087598
9780691087597
DDC
510.1
5101
MMS ID
991002381579702626
