Patterns of Plausible Inference: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning Volume II

Polya, G.

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ISBN 10: 069102510X ISBN 13: 9780691025100

Published by Princeton Univ Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A., 1990

Language: English

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Volume II only. (6th) Very large softcover, glossy blue wrappers, praise on back, 225 pages. Light creases at bottom back tip. Near Very Fine.

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Patterns of Plausible Inference: Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning Volume II

Publisher

Princeton Univ Press, Ewing, New Jersey, U.S.A.

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1990

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English

ISBN 10

069102510X

ISBN 13

9780691025100

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Soft cover

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Fine

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A guide to the practical art of plausible reasoning, this book has relevance in every field of intellectual activity. Professor Polya, a world-famous mathematician from Stanford University, uses mathematics to show how hunches and guesses play an important part in even the most rigorously deductive science. He explains how solutions to problems can be guessed at; good guessing is often more important than rigorous deduction in finding correct solutions. Vol. II, on Patterns of Plausible Inference, attempts to develop a logic of plausibility. What makes some evidence stronger and some weaker? How does one seek evidence that will make a suspected truth more probable? These questions involve philosophy and psychology as well as mathematics.

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G. Polya (1887-1985) was Professor of Mathematics at Stanford University.

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