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Discusses The Impact That Mathematics And Computers Have On Our Intellectual And Emotional Lives. 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Perspectives Through Time -- Of Time And Mathematics -- Non-euclidean Geometry And Ethical Relati

Who reads Descartes' Dream : the World According to Mathematics?

Author

Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh

Publisher

Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich

Published

1986

Language

EN

ISBN

9780151252602

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Mathematics, Philosophy, Computer Science

Rating

4 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-24