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Continuous Geometry by John Von Neumann
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £82.32In his work on rings of operators in Hilbert space, John von Neumann discovered a new mathematical structure that resembled the lattice system Ln. In characterizing its properties, von Neumann... -
The Computer and the Brain by John Von Neumann
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.20In this classic work, one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century explores the analogies between computing machines and the living human brain. John von Neumann, whose many... -
John Von Neumann: The Giga Brain by Dr Leo Lexicon 9798227600998
RRP: £12.49Booksplease Price: £12.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798227600998Author Dr Leo LexiconFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Lexicon LabsPublisher Lexicon... -
John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing by William Aspray 9780262518857
Booksplease Price: £37.17Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262518857Author William AsprayFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press... -
Mathematical Foundations of Quantum Mechanics: New Edition by John von Neumann
RRP: £95.00Booksplease Price: £75.01Quantum mechanics was still in its infancy in 1932 when the young John von Neumann, who would go on to become one of the greatest mathematicians of the twentieth century, published Mathematical... -
Functional Operators (AM-21), Volume 1: Measures and Integrals. (AM-21) by John Von Neumann 9780691079660
RRP: £92.00Booksplease Price: £72.73Geometry of orthogonal spaces.Book InformationISBN 9780691079660Author John von NeumannFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Princeton University PressPublisher Princeton University... -
Routines of Substitution: John von Neumann's Work on Software Development, 1945-1948 by Mark Priestley 9783319916705
Booksplease Price: £46.28This work is a historical and philosophical study of the programming work carried out by John von Neumann in the period 1945-8. At the heart of the book is an examination of a manuscript featuring... -
The Man from the Future: The Visionary Life of John von Neumann by Ananyo Bhattacharya
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74A FINANCIAL TIMES AND TLS BOOK OF THE YEARAn exhilarating new biography of John von Neumann: the lost genius who invented our world'A sparkling book, with an intoxicating mix of pen-portraits and... -
Theory of Games and Economic Behavior: 60th Anniversary Commemorative Edition by John Von Neumann 9780691130613
RRP: £62.00Booksplease Price: £50.39This is the classic work upon which modern-day game theory is based. What began more than sixty years ago as a modest proposal that a mathematician and an economist write a short paper together... -
The World as a Mathematical Game: John von Neumann and Twentieth Century Science by Giorgio Israel 9783764398958
RRP: £96.50Booksplease Price: £90.56Galileo and Newton's work towards the mathematisation of the physical world; Leibniz's universal logical calculus; the Enlightenment's mathematique sociale. John von Neumann inherited all these aims... -
Brilliance in Exile: The Diaspora of Hungarian Scientists from John Von Neumann to Katalin Karikó by István Hargittai
RRP: £25.95Booksplease Price: £23.51By addressing the enigma of the exceptional success of Hungarian emigrant scientists and telling their life stories, Brilliance in Exile combines scholarly analysis with fascinating portrayals of... -
Functional Operators (AM-22), Volume 2: The Geometry of Orthogonal Spaces. (AM-22) by John Von Neumann
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £44.25Measures and integralsBook InformationISBN 9780691095790Author John von NeumannFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Princeton University PressPublisher Princeton University PressWeight(grams) 255g -
Brilliance in Exile: The Diaspora of Hungarian Scientists from John Von Neumann to Katalin Karikó by István Hargittai 9789633866252
Booksplease Price: £113.27By addressing the enigma of the exceptional success of Hungarian emigrant scientists and telling their life stories, Brilliance in Exile combines scholarly analysis with fascinating portrayals of... -
Wisdom Of The Martians Of Science: In Their Own Words With Commentaries by Istvan Hargittai 9789814723817
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.42Wisdom of the Martians of Science refers to five scientists whose brilliance contributed to shaping the modern world. John von Neumann was a pioneer of the modern computer; Theodore von Karman was... -
Wisdom Of The Martians Of Science: In Their Own Words With Commentaries Istvan Hargittai (Budapest Univ Of Technology & Economics, Hungary) 9789814723800
RRP: £53.00Booksplease Price: £47.95Wisdom of the Martians of Science refers to five scientists whose brilliance contributed to shaping the modern world. John von Neumann was a pioneer of the modern computer; Theodore von Karman was... -
Game Theory: Understanding the Mathematics of Life by Brian Clegg
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Brian Clegg was always fascinated by Isaac Asimov's classic Foundation series of books, in which the future is predicted using sophisticated mathematical modelling of human psychology and behaviour... -
Song For Molly, A Jeremy Bernstein 9789811218941
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54A Song for Molly is both a love story and a poetic homage to science. The subjects in this first-person novella range from encounters with Wittgenstein, Einstein and Goedel, to trying to live with a... -
Shifting Paradigms in Software Engineering: Proceedings of the 7th Joint Conference of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) and the John von Neumann Society for Computing Sciences (NJSZT) in Klagenfurt, Austria, 1992 by Roland Mittermeir 9783211824085
Booksplease Price: £46.28Object-orientation and the need for multi-paradigmatic systems constitute a challenge for researchers, practitioners and instructors. Presentations at the OCG/NJSZT joint conference in Klagenfurt,... -
The Myth of Artificial Intelligence: Why Computers Can't Think the Way We Do by Erik J. Larson
RRP: £16.95Booksplease Price: £14.35"Exposes the vast gap between the actual science underlying AI and the dramatic claims being made for it."-John Horgan"If you want to know about AI, read this book...It shows how a supposedly... -
The World the Game Theorists Made: Game Theory and Cold War Culture by Paul Erickson
Booksplease Price: £31.37In recent decades game theory-the mathematics of rational decision-making by interacting individuals-has assumed a central place in our understanding of capitalist markets, the evolution of social... -
The World the Game Theorists Made: Game Theory and Cold War Culture by Paul Erickson 9780226097039
RRP: £100.00Booksplease Price: £96.35In recent decades game theory - the mathematics of rational decision-making by interacting individuals - has assumed a central place in our understanding of capitalist markets, the evolution of... -
The Waltz of Reason: The Entanglement of Mathematics and Philosophy by Karl Sigmund 9781541602694
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £20.34"Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here," Plato warned would-be philosophers. Mathematician Karl Sigmund agrees.In The Waltz of Reason, he shows how mathematics and philosophy together have... -
Everything Is Predictable: How Bayes' Remarkable Theorem Explains the World Tom Chivers 9781399604055
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.06SHORTLISTED FOR THE ROYAL SOCIETY TRIVEDI SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2024'Fascinating, witty and perspective-shifting . . . I finished it not only better informed about a captivating branch of mathematics,... -
Systems Research for Behavioral Science: A Sourcebook Walter Buckley 9780202362809
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £50.31Systems Research for Behavioral Science will be of interest to those in any discipline concerned with developments in science. It is addressed principally to the student of human behavior as that... -
Alan Turing: The Enigma: The Book That Inspired the Film The Imitation Game - Updated Edition by Andrew Hodges 9780691164724
Booksplease Price: £16.70A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The official book behind the Academy Award-winning film The Imitation Game, starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Keira Knightley It is only a slight exaggeration to say... -
Philosophy of Mathematics and Natural Science by Hermann Weyl
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £44.25When mathematician Hermann Weyl decided to write a book on philosophy, he faced what he referred to as "conflicts of conscience"--the objective nature of science, he felt, did not mesh easily with... -
The Portfolio Theorists: von Neumann, Savage, Arrow and Markowitz by C. Read 9781349324316
Booksplease Price: £46.28Read examines probability, risk, and uncertainty through the contributions of John von Neumann, Leonard Jimmie Savage, Kenneth Arrow and Harry Markowitz. These Portfolio Theorists provided us with a... -
Duelling Idiots and Other Probability Puzzlers by Paul J. Nahin 9780691155005
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £13.99What are your chances of dying on your next flight, being called for jury duty, or winning the lottery? We all encounter probability problems in our everyday lives. In this collection of twenty-one... -
Finding Equilibrium: Arrow, Debreu, McKenzie and the Problem of Scientific Credit by Till Duppe 9780691156644
RRP: £42.00Booksplease Price: £34.35Finding Equilibrium explores the post-World War II transformation of economics by constructing a history of the proof of its central dogma--that a competitive market economy may possess a set of... -
Alan Turing's Systems of Logic: The Princeton Thesis by Andrew W. Appel 9780691164731
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £11.70Between inventing the concept of a universal computer in 1936 and breaking the German Enigma code during World War II, Alan Turing (1912-1954), the British founder of computer science and artificial... -
Alan Turing's Systems of Logic: The Princeton Thesis by Andrew W. Appel
RRP: £35.00Booksplease Price: £32.93Between inventing the concept of a universal computer in 1936 and breaking the German Enigma code during World War II, Alan Turing (1912-1954), the British founder of computer science and artificial... -
Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology: Volume 6 - Computer Selection Criteria to Curriculum Committee on Computer Science by Jack Belzer 9780824722562
Booksplease Price: £96.90"This comprehensive reference work provides immediate, fingertip access to state-of-the-art technology in nearly 700 self-contained articles written by over 900 international authorities. Each... -
Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology: Volume 19 - Supplement 4: Access Technoogy: Inc. to Symbol Manipulation Patkages by Allen Kent 9780367403355
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £38.37"This comprehensive reference work provides immediate, fingertip access to state-of-the-art technology in nearly 700 self-contained articles written by over 900 international authorities. Each... -
Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology: Volume 9 - Generative Epistemology of Problem Solving to Laplace and Geometric Transforms by Jack Belzer 9780824722593
Booksplease Price: £96.90"This comprehensive reference work provides immediate, fingertip access to state-of-the-art technology in nearly 700 self-contained articles written by over 900 international authorities. Each... -
Compendium of Theoretical Physics by Armin Wachter 9781441920690
Booksplease Price: £66.26Mechanics, Electrodynamics, Quantum Mechanics, and Statistical Mechanics and Thermodynamics comprise the canonical undergraduate curriculum of theoretical physics. In Compendium of Theoretical... -
Seduced By Mathematics by James D Stein 9789811256356
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £23.54Seduction is not just an end result, but a process - and in mathematics, both the end results and the process by which those end results are achieved are often charming and elegant.This helps to... -
Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology: Volume 27 - Supplement 12: Artificial Intelligence and ADA to Systems Integration: Concepts: Methods, and Tools by Allen Kent
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £93.17"This comprehensive reference work provides immediate, fingertip access to state-of-the-art technology in nearly 700 self-contained articles written by over 900 international authorities. Each... -
Seduced By Mathematics: The Enduring Fascination Of Mathematics James D Stein (California State Univ, Long Beach, Usa) 9789811255465
RRP: £55.00Booksplease Price: £49.37Seduction is not just an end result, but a process - and in mathematics, both the end results and the process by which those end results are achieved are often charming and elegant.This helps to... -
Birth Of Numerical Analysis, The by Adhemar Bultheel 9789812836250
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £79.50The 1947 paper by John von Neumann and Herman Goldstine, "Numerical Inverting of Matrices of High Order" (Bulletin of the AMS, Nov. 1947), is considered as the birth certificate of numerical analysis... -
Philosophy and Logic of Quantum Physics: An Investigation of the Metaphysical and Logical Implications of Quantum Physics by Jan Philipp Dapprich 9783631667255
RRP: £33.50Booksplease Price: £30.86The book investigates the ontology and logic of quantum physics. The first part discusses the relationship of theory and observation and different views on the ontological status of scientific...