دانلود کتاب Descartes' Dream: The World According to Mathematics

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Contents Preface Acknowledgments I. This Mathematized World Descartes’ Dream Where the Dream Stands Today The Limits of Mathematics Are We Drowning in Digits? The Stochastized World: A Matter of Style? Feedback and Control: The Equilibrium Machine Computer Graphics and the Possibility of High Art II. The Social Tyranny of Numbers Mathematics and Rhetoric The Criterion Makers: Mathematics and Social Policy The Computerization of Love Testing Mathematics as a Social Filter A “Marxian” Analysis of the Role of Computing in Organizations III. Cognition and Computation The Descriptive, Predictive, and Prescriptive Functions of Applied Mathematics The Intellectual Components of Technology, Mathematics and Computation: Four Lists Metathinking as a Way of Life Three Meanings of Computation What Scientific Computation is for Why Should I Believe a Computer: Computation as Process and Product The Whorfian Hypothesis: Ends and Means in Computer Languages The Programming Milieu IV. Perspectives Through Time Of Time and Mathematics Non—Euclidean Geometry and Ethical Relativism The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Computers. Are We Hooked? V. Mathematics and Ethics Platonic Mathematics Meets Platonic Philosophy of Religion: An Ethical Metaphor The Computer Thinks: An Interpretation in the Medieval Mode Mathematics and the End of the World VI. Personal Meanings Mathematics and Imposed Reality Loss of Meaning through Intellectual Processes: Mathematical Abstraction VII. Envoi Bibliography Index