Mathematics and plausible reasoning / G. Polya.
By: Pólya, George.
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BookPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 1968Description: v. ; 25 cm. + pbk.ISBN: 069102510X.Subject(s): Mathematics -- Philosophy
| Logic, Symbolic and mathematicalDDC classification: 510.1 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 510.1 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00013633 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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 science. He explains how solutions to problems can be guessed at; good guessing is often more important than rigorous deduction in finding correct solutions. Vol. II, on Patterns of Plausible Inference , attempts to develop a logic of plausibility. What makes some evidence stronger and some weaker? How does one seek evidence that will make a suspected truth more probable? These questions involve philosophy and psychology as well as mathematics.
Bibliography: (pages 189-190).
v. 2. Patterns of plausible inference.
Some conspicuous patterns -- Further patterns and first links -- Chance, the ever present rival conjecture -- The calculus of probability and the logic of plausible reasoning -- Plausible reasoning in invention and instruction.