In dit boek wil de auteur iets van haar liefde voor de wiskunde overbrengen op de lezer, ook en zelfs in het bijzonder op die lezer voor wie de schoolwiskunde een vervelende ervaring of zelfs een "bittere" teleurstelling is geweest, en zij is daar uitstekend in geslaagd.

Rozsa Péter kent nauwkeurig de grens tot waar de wiskunde kan worden vereenvoudigd zonder dat het beeld vertekend wordt, ze laat het genoegen proeven dat aan iedere ontdekking in de wiskunde verbonden is, en toont het mensel...

Het woord fenomenologie, leerde er verschijnselen, is van oudere datum; hoofdwerken van Hegel en Ed. von Hartmann dragen het reeds in hun titel. Maar in de betekenis van een bepaalde wijsgerige methode, waarbij men van een "fenomenologische school" kan spreken, is het een tamelijk modern begrip, afkomstig van de Duitse filosoof Edmund Husserl (1913). Een groot aantal leerlingen en latere navolgers past deze wijsgerige methode toe, die ook in de extensiefilosofie een grote invloed heeft uitgeo...

This accessible guide to the Gospel and Letters of John introduces readers to key issues arising from historical, literary, and theological approaches to the Johannine literature, also discussing the methodological rationale underlying each of these approaches. After introducing the reader to the development of the narrative structure of the book, the message (theology) is discussed in detail, with the aim of introducing the reader to the interrelatedness of the multiple theological ideas in ...

Structural proof theory is a branch of logic that studies the general structure and properties of logical and mathematical proofs. This book is both a concise introduction to the central results and methods of structural proof theory, and a work of research that will be of interest to specialists. The book is designed to be used by students of philosophy, mathematics, and computer science. A special feature of the volume is a computerized system for developing proofs interactively, downloa...

Gauss's law for electric fields, Gauss's law for magnetic fields, Faraday's law, and the Ampere-Maxwell law are four of the most influential equations in science. In this guide for students, each equation is the subject of an entire chapter, with detailed, plain-language explanations of the physical meaning of each symbol in the equation, for both the integral and differential forms. The final chapter shows how Maxwell's equations may be combined to produce the wave equation, the basis for th...

For 5000 years shipping has served the world economy and today it provides a sophisticated transport service to every part of the globe. Yet despite its economic complexity, shipping retains much of the competitive cut and thrust of the “perfect” market of classical economics. This blend of sophisticated logistics and larger than life entrepreneurs makes it a unique case study of classical economics in a modern setting.

The enlarged and substantially rewritten Maritime Economics u...

This text aims to be useful and relevant for student nurses from all backgrounds with a range of professional aspirations. It demonstrates the importance of psychology in both the nursing role and in health care in general.

Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak. But, there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world. The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. This is a book on art in various languages.

Thou and thine, Hester Prynne, belong to me.'With these chilling words a husband claims his wife after a two-year absence. But the child she clutches is not his, and Hester must wear a scarlet 'A' upon her breast, the sin of adultery visible to all. Under an assumed name her husband begins his search for her lover, determined to expose what Hester is equally determined to protect.

Defiant and proud, Hester witnesses the degradation of two very different men, as moral codes and legal imperativ...