Foundations of Measurement: Volume 3 - Hardcover

R. Duncan Luce; David H. Krantz; Patrick Suppes; Amos Tversky

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0124254039 ISBN 13: 9780124254039

Publisher: Academic Press, 1990

Synopsis

From the Foreword is infinite in multitude; and I mean by the sand not only that which exists about Syracuse and the rest of Sicily but also that which is found in every region whether inhabited or unhabited. Again there are some who, without regarding it as infinite, yet think that no number has been named which is great enough to exceed its multitude. And it is clear that they who hold this view, if they imagined a mass made up of sand in other respects as large as the mass of the earth, including in it all the seas and the hollows of the earth filled up to a height equal to that of the highest mountains, would be many times further still from recognizing that any number could be expressed which exceeded the multitude of the sand so taken. But I will try to show you by means of geometrical proofs, which you will be able to follow, that, of the numbers named by me and given in the work which I sent to Zeuxippus, some exceed not only the number of the mass of sand equal in magnitude to the earth filled up in the way described, but also that of a mass equal in magnitude to the universe.:

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Review

Volume III provides a fitting conclusion to the Foundations of Measurement trilogy....it makes an important contribution to the theory of measurement, which is a topic that should be required study for every quantitatively oriented social scientist.
--APPLIED PSYCHOLOGICAL MEASUREMENT
[The following quote should be used only when advertising both volumes II and III together]
The monumental finished work of more than 1,400 pages (volumes I, II, and III) is a tribute to its authors' perserverance as well as being a cornucopia of measurement theory.
--JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATIO

Edition details

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Publication date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0124254039
• ISBN 13: 9780124254039
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 356