{"product_id":"the-logic-of-the-plausible-and-some-of-its-applications-von-rene-leclerq","title":"The Logic of the Plausible and Some of its Applications","description":"So simple and imperfect as it may appear this book has made use of knowledge on invention and discovery accumu lated during a lifetime. Those persons who would be tempted to emphasize only its imperfections should read the correspondence exchanged between Cantor and Dedekind at the end of the nineteenth century; they would then realize how difficult it was, even for an outstanding man, the creator of the set theory, to propose impeccable results in a completely new field. The field I have chosen here is plausibility. I have proposed an intuitive, some would say a naive, presentation as I want to reach as large an audience as possible and because I personally believe that it is easier to axiomatize a mathematical theory precisely than to dis cover it and enunciate its key theorems. Professor Polya said: \"The truly creative mathematician is a good guesser first and a good prover afterward. \" For centuries a formalized generalized logic was found necessary and many attempts have been made to build it. vi Preface Mine is based on plausibility which covers with precision a wider field than probability and makes the formalization of analogy and generalization possible. As Laplace said: \"Even in the mathematical sciences, our principal instru ments to discover the truth are induction and analogy. \"* The examples of application I have chosen are not des cribed in detail.\u003cdiv class=\"aw-variant-hidden-subtitle-div\" id=\"aw-variant-subtitle-9781468407440\"\u003e\u003ch3\u003e\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Libri","offers":[{"title":"Softcover - 9781468407440","offer_id":39416971231325,"sku":"9781468407440","price":53.49,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0940\/0622\/files\/f1f22c9b-38d5-4113-afdf-614875c105d4.jpg?v=1775795149","url":"https:\/\/shop.autorenwelt.de\/products\/the-logic-of-the-plausible-and-some-of-its-applications-von-rene-leclerq","provider":"Autorenwelt Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}