Essays in science and philosophy
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Details
- Year of publication
- 1948
- Place of printing
- London
- Author
- Whitehead Alfred N.
- Publishers
- Rider and Company
- Keyword
- (Filosofia - Scienza - Matematica)
- Languages
- Italian
Description
In-8°, pp. 255, legatura in tela editoriale con titoli al dorso. Indice - Contents: Part I. Personal. Autobiographical Notes; Memories; The education of an Englishman; England and the Narrow Seas; An Appeal to Santity. Part II. Philosophy. Immortality; Mathematics and the Good; Process and Reality; John Dewey and his Influence; Analysis of Meaning; Uniformity and Contingency. Part III. Education. The Study of the Past-its Uses and its Dangers; Education and Self-Education; Mathematics and Liberal Education; Science and General Education; Historical Changes; Harvard: the Future. Part IV. Science. The First Physical Synthesis; Axioms of Geometry; Mathematics; Non-Euclidean Geometry; Indication, Classes, Numbers, Validation; Einstein's Theory.