In Why Is There Philosophy of Mathematics At All? one of the grand eminences of the philosophy of science, now retired, offers a lively, discursive tour of some of the broad landscapes of the philosophy of mathematics...
The joyous lion of theoretical computer science Boaz Barak is reporting on Avi Wigderson's book Mathematics and Computation which is on Avi's homepage. I read through an earlier version and it is highly recommended! Let me also recommend Avi's earlier survey on interaction between CS and math.
In the spring of 2010, I was privileged to have a conversation with Simon Schaffer, who pointed me to the work of a sociologist and philosopher of science named Harry Collins. This year, I discovered and read Collins' new book, Tacit and Explicit Knowledge, and a somewhat older book, The Shape of Actions (co-authored with…
In this influential work about the staggering divide between children and the outdoors, child advocacy expert Richard Louv directly links the lack of nature in the lives of today's wired generation—he calls it nature-deficit—to some of the most disturbing childhood trends, such as the rises in obesity, attention disorders, and depression.
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Kurz vor Ende das Jahres (2006) bringt der Galileo Verlag ein Buch zu CSS heraus, das, wenn es 5 Sterne gäbe, 6 verdienen würde. CSS Layouts - Praxislösungen mit YAML wurde von Dirk Jesse, dem Entwickler des (X)HTML/CSS Frameworks YAML, geschrieben. Da