Fuzzy Thinking : The New Science of Fuzzy Logic

Bart Kosko

ISBN 10: 0006547133 / ISBN 13: 9780006547136

Published by Flamingo, 1993

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Neuware - For more than 2000 years, Western science has been based on absolutes. Things are black or white, alive or dead, all or nothing. As human beings we know the world is not really like this, that degrees exist between the extremes. But until now science has been unable to accommodate these uncertainties. Fuzzy logic is a scientific revolution that has been waiting to happen for decades - and its central tenets will dramatically change the relationship human beings have with the world. The question is to what degree. In this absorbing, iconoclastic account of the head-spinning possibilities for fuzzy technology, Bart Kosko, fuzzy logic's most famous and combative apostle, urges us to abandon the debilitating binary world and turn to the East, for the future will be 'fuzzy'. 'One day I learned that science was not true. I do not recall the day but I recall the moment. The God of the twentieth century was no longer God.' 'An exciting alternative form of logic'TIM CRANE, 'Sunday Telegraph' ''Fuzzy Thinking' is about. a radically different way of structuring our thoughts and experience . that transforms our perception of reality.'DANAH ZOHAR, 'Independent on Sunday' ''Fuzzy Logic' works. It will become a significant technological force'MICHAEL WHITE, 'The Times' 'Bart Kosko is an extraordinary and polymathic combination of talents'PROFESSOR MARVIN MINSKY, 'MIT' 'Bart Kosko is the quintessential scientific cyberpunk - a hip, street-smart prophet of life in the Information Age'LOS ANGELES TIMES 'Fuzzy Logic is the cocaine of science'PROFESSOR WILLIAM KAHAN, 'UC Berkeley'.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Fuzzy Thinking : The New Science of Fuzzy Logic
• Publisher: Flamingo
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0006547133
• ISBN 13: 9780006547136
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 198W x 129H x 18D millimeters 198 millimeters width by 129 millimeters height by 18 millimeters depth
• Weight: 237 grams

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Synopsis

A washing machine that gauges each load to determine how much soap to use An air conditioner that constantly adjusts cooling strength based on room temperature These "smart" products are possible with the advent of "fuzzy logic, " the principle that's revolutionizing science. Now, its chief proponent presents a brilliant, popular account of the field called the "new chaos.".

About the Author

Professor Bart Kosko has degrees in philosophy, economics, mathematics, and electrical engineering and is on the faculty of the University of Southern California.