Infinite Ascent

Infinite Ascent
Author: David Berlinski
Publisher: Modern Library
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2011-08-17
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 0307778177

In Infinite Ascent, David Berlinski, the acclaimed author of The Advent of the Algorithm, A Tour of the Calculus, and Newton’s Gift, tells the story of mathematics, bringing to life with wit, elegance, and deep insight a 2,500-year-long intellectual adventure. Berlinski focuses on the ten most important breakthroughs in mathematical history–and the men behind them. Here are Pythagoras, intoxicated by the mystical significance of numbers; Euclid, who gave the world the very idea of a proof; Leibniz and Newton, co-discoverers of the calculus; Cantor, master of the infinite; and Gödel, who in one magnificent proof placed everything in doubt. The elaboration of mathematical knowledge has meant nothing less than the unfolding of human consciousness itself. With his unmatched ability to make abstract ideas concrete and approachable, Berlinski both tells an engrossing tale and introduces us to the full power of what surely ranks as one of the greatest of all human endeavors.

Nietzsche's Philosophy

Nietzsche's Philosophy
Author: Eugen Fink
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2003-01-02
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 9780826459978

Nietzsche's Philosophy traces the passionate development of Nietzsche's thought from the aestheticism of The Birth of Tragedy through to the late doctrines of the "will to power" and "eternal return".Inspired by the phenomenological method of Edmund Husserl and by the work of Martin Heidegger, Fink exposes the central themes of Nietzsche's philosophy, revealing the philosopher who experiences thinking as a fate and who ultimately searches for an expression of his own ontological experience in a negative theology.

The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 15

The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Volume 15
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 660
Release: 2020-07-14
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0691203164

The Opus Maximum gathers the last major body of unpublished prose writings by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Consisting primarily of fragments dictated to Joseph Henry Green, probably between 1819 and 1823, these writings represent all that exists of what Coleridge considered to be "the principal Labour" and "the great Object" of his life, which he called variously the Logosophia and Magnum Opus. Dedicated to "the reconcilement of the moral faith with the Reason," Coleridge's envisioned Magnum Opus was supposed to "reduce all knowledges into harmony." While such a synthesis finally eluded him, and the Magnum Opus remained unfinished, the surviving fragments nonetheless bear powerful witness to Coleridge's engagement with theology, moral philosophy, natural philosophy, and logic, among other disciplines. Among the subjects that will particularly interest readers are Coleridge's criticisms of Epicureanism, pantheism, and German Naturphilosophie; his attempt to ground reason in faith; and his reflections on personhood (especially in the relationship between mother and child), on will, on language, and on the Logos. Previously unknown to all but a handful of scholars, the manuscripts presented here provide valuable insight into a crucial period of Coleridge's intellectual development, as he became increasingly dissatisfied with Naturphilosophie and struggled to affirm Trinitarian Christianity on a rational basis. With this volume, The Collected Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge, begun forty years ago under the sponsorship of the Bollingen Foundation and the editorship of the late Kathleen Coburn, is now complete.

Linear Operators and Their Essential Pseudospectra

Linear Operators and Their Essential Pseudospectra
Author: Aref Jeribi
Publisher: CRC Press
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2018-04-17
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 1351046268

Linear Operators and Their Essential Pseudospectra provides a comprehensive study of spectral theory of linear operators defined on Banach spaces. The central items of interest in the volume include various essential spectra, but the author also considers some of the generalizations that have been studied. In recent years, spectral theory has witnessed an explosive development. This volume presents a survey of results concerning various types of essential spectra and pseudospectra in a unified, axiomatic way and also discusses several topics that are new but which relate to the concepts and methods emanating from the book. The main topics include essential spectra, essential pseudospectra, structured essential pseudospectra, and their relative sets. This volume will be very useful for several researchers since it represents not only a collection of previously heterogeneous material but also includes discussions of innovation through several extensions. As the spectral theory of operators is an important part of functional analysis and has numerous applications in many areas of mathematics, the author suggests that some modest prerequisites from functional analysis and operator theory should be in place to be accessible to newcomers and graduate students of mathematics.

Opus Maximum

Opus Maximum
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Total Pages: 666
Release: 2002
Genre: Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
ISBN: 9780691098821

Denseness, Bases and Frames in Banach Spaces and Applications

Denseness, Bases and Frames in Banach Spaces and Applications
Author: Aref Jeribi
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2018-03-19
Genre: Mathematics
ISBN: 3110493861

This book is devoted to recent developments concerning linear operators, covering topics such as the Cauchy problem, Riesz basis, frames, spectral theory and applications to the Gribov operator in Bargmann space. Also, integral and integro-differential equations as well as applications to problems in mathematical physics and mechanics are discussed. Contents Introduction Linear operators Basic notations and results Bases Semi-groups Discrete operator and denseness of the generalized eigenvectors Frames in Hilbert spaces Summability of series ν-convergence operators Γ-hypercyclic set of linear operators Analytic operators in Béla Szökefalvi-Nagy’s sense Bases of the perturbed operator T(ε) Frame of the perturbed operator T(ε) Perturbation method for sound radiation by a vibrating plate in a light fluid Applications to mathematical models Reggeon field theory