books about: symbolic     books:       An Introduction to Fuzzy Logic for Practical Applications8 reviews Kazuo Tanaka Springer, 1996 Excellent book!!! This book is an EXCELLENT book for teaching this subject. Students can finally understand what is fuzzy logic and its notation. It is short and sweet, with great examples, great pictures, great explanations. Not difficult to read at all. Actually, quite enjoyable to read for students. It just has several typos, but thet are easy to detect as typos right away.             Kenneth Burke on Shakespeare11 reviews Kenneth Burke Parlor Press, 2007 Valuable for students of Burke's scholarship This work gathers together all of Kenneth Burke's writing on Shakespeare, thirteen major essays and a host of notes and remarks scattered throughout his writings. It contains an introduction by its editor,Scott L. Newstok which explains his own work on the volume, and Burke's general approach to Shakespeare criticism. The book also contains on its back cover laudatory words from among others ...             Ones and Zeros: Understanding Boolean Algebra, Digital Circuits, and the Logic of Sets (IEEE Press ...6 reviews John R. Gregg Wiley-IEEE Press, 1998 Excellent book This is an rxcellent book for anyone interested in digital circuits and boolean algebra. It is very easy to understand, but does go into enough detail for the advanced to learn from it also. We can all improve our skills after reading this book. Also the price is right!             Q.E.D.: Beauty in Mathematical Proof (Wooden Books)8 reviews Walker & Company, 2004 I want more!!! If you feel that you have lost the touch of history of mathematics, have lost your creativity into the rigour of formal methods, and need integral calculus to solve simplest of the mathematical problems, this is the book you need. Q.E.D. is a compilation of ancient mathematical problems with unexpectedly short mathematical proofs, which one you know them, are as simple as they can be, yet you ...             Common Lisp: A Gentle Introduction to Symbolic Computation11 reviews David S. Touretzky Benjamin-Cummings Pub Co, 1989 Very nice beginner's book on Lisp This is a great book for those wanting to learn Lisp. In the first part of the book, when describing functions, the author stays away from Lisp and any real programming notation, using diagrams to show some of the fundamental concepts -- which are explained in such a clear way that everything become so obvious! Later he switches to Lisp, telling you it's a "different notation for the same ...             Pout or Purpose? A Simple Approach for Understanding Your Purpose Pie and Improving Your Life7 reviews Harold Kerr K.C. Fox Publishing, 2005 A Fun, Yet In-Depth Way of Finding Your Purpose I found "Pout or Purpose?" to be an excellent guide - not only for finding my purpose, but for putting it into words, and creating an action plan to help me get there. This book is really a fun read, as it's put in the form of a fable (much like "Aesops Fables", which I read in my youth). Each of the characters has a catchy name, such as "Fixity Fox", "Pouting Pig" and "Creative Cat" - and ...             The Language of God in Prophecy, A Dynamic New Look at Bible Prophecy Using Gods Symbolic Language as the Key ...7 reviews Helena Lehman Pillar of Enoch Ministry, 2006 Goes Deeper Than Any Other Existing Study of Prophecy This book is far more than a study of Bible Prophecy. In fact, it goes way beyond the written words of the Bible in scope. First, it discusses prophecies hidden in the Bible like the Bible codes, Menorah codes, the codes found in the structure of the Hebrew Alphabet, and the prophecies hidden in the Psalms. Then it jumps outside of the Bible to find prophecies that were written in the Zodiac Star ...             Bridge to Abstract Mathematics: Mathematical Proof and Structures7 reviews Ronald P. Morash Random House USA Inc, 1987 Premier Text on Proofing! I am currently taking a 300 level course on proofing and Bridge to Abstract Mathematics is one of the required texts. This book is an excellent introduction to proofing. There is a huge intellectual leap between 200 level and 300 level proof based math courses that is often very difficult for college math students to make. This text does an wonderful job of bridging that gap. Many teachers ...             Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic13 reviews Anita Burdman Feferman, Solomon Feferman Cambridge University Press, 2004 Intriguing story - far beyond my expectation! To be honest, I started reading this book with some suspicion. In the first place, I was neither a fan of Tarski nor of S.Feferman. Though I did regard Tarski as one of the intellectual giants in the 20th century, I still frowned at the book's opening description of him as one of the "greatest" logicians of all time - on a par with my own hero Godel. My feeling towards S.Feferman was similarly ...             The Waking Dream: Unlocking the Symbolic Language of Our Lives8 reviews Ray Grasse Quest Books, 1996 What More Could One Ask of a Book? This book represents the best, most comprehensive, exposition of the symbolist world view in a single volume. Infact, if I wanted to truly understand the deep, fundamental roots of mysticism or occultism, this is the book that I would read first. Symbolism stands in contrast to stark materialism in that it assigns inherent Meaning to the world. Symbolism holds that this physical, material world ...             The Golden Apple: Changing the Structure of Civilization4 reviews Edgar J. Ridley Africa World Press, 2008 This is one of the greatest books I ever read. I often wonder why the richest countries in natural resources where indeed the poorest. It all make since to me now. The symbolic strategy is so well used by the west to steal everything by all means so as to remain in power. Do they have such low esteem of themselves to be unable to remain in power by their own means and own resources? Do they have such a low esteem of themselves that they ...             Computability, Complexity, and Languages, Second Edition: Fundamentals of Theoretical Computer Science ...5 reviews Martin Davis, Ron Sigal, ... Morgan Kaufmann, 1994 Pure mathematical view of Computability and Complexity This is not a common book on Computability and Complexity as Hopcroft-Ullman, Sipser or Papadimitrou. You won't find here too many words describing topics: you'll find the power and elegance of a superlative mathematical approach from one the best authors of the century in the field. Conversely, you'll find here a detailed and elegant treatment of the whole history of computational models that ...             An Introduction to Gödel's Theorems (Cambridge Introductions to Philosophy)4 reviews Peter Smith Cambridge University Press, 2007 the best thing out there For a couple of decades now, students who had completed their first logic class and dabbled in a little bit of metatheory (perhaps soundness and completeness) were forced to avail themselves of Boolos and Jeffrey's (fourth edition with Burgess) "Computability and Logic." Unfortunately, the third edition presented much of the material in too brief a manner, resulting in a big jump from lower level ...             Logic: Techniques of Formal Reasoning5 reviews Donald Kalish, Richard Montague Harcourt Brace College Publishers, 1967 Best Textbook With some saddness, I noted the death of Dr Kalish this month. As an undergrad at UCLA during the mid 60's, I was fortunate to take Dr Kalish's class in Symbolic Logic. Over the years, I realized that his course using this textbook was the most valuable class I took, either as an undergrad or a graduate student. The text offers disciplined procedural logic that clarifies thought processes. ...             Keys to Infinity4 reviews Clifford A. Pickover John Wiley & Sons, 1995 A truly entertaining book on numbers A perpetual idea machine, Clifford Pickover is one of the most creative, original thinkers in the world today. In most cases using only simple ideas, he follows paths that in many cases must be constructed immediately before traversal. In this, his latest installment in that trek of exploration, he is again at his best. Each subject starts with a simple premise and the author follows it ...             A Logical Journey: From Gödel to Philosophy4 reviews The MIT Press, 1997 The end of books: the pinnacle of knowledge : The ideas expressed in this book are at least 100 years ahead of their time. Godel wasn't just friends with Einstein, he was (and is) widely regarded as "the greatest logician since Aristotle" (Oppenheimer said that, Aristotle was the father of logic). Einstein said that the only reason he showed up for work at the IAS in Princeton in his last years was so he could walk home with Godel. In ...             Beneath the Clouds and Coconut Leaves5 reviews Moncy Pothen American Book Publishing, 2006 Review by a traditional Indian girl First of all, as soon as I completed the last lines of the book, tears started rolling down my cheeks. I really wonder why it happened. I think the climax has such an effect on me because basically I am a traditional Indian girl and all Indian girls are same in their heart though some act as if they are not. Beneath the Clouds and Coconut Leaves is a realistic book which gives a good idea about ...             The Language of God in History, A New Biblically Based Reinterpretation of History That Traces The Ancient ...5 reviews Helena Lehman Pillar of Enoch Ministry, 2009 "A Revolutionary View of Biblical History!" The Language of God In History by Helena Lehman This was the most fascinating book I have ever read! Helena Lehman has filled in the gaps of many of the records in the Bible with her exhaustive research of how the Earth was before and after the flood! She paints a vivid picture of how the Earth and its inhabitants really were before and after the Great Flood, so much so that the Bible came ...             Chaos: An Introduction to Dynamical Systems5 reviews Kathleen Alligood Springer-Verlag, 1996 great introduction to dynamical systems I was enrolled in a course at GMU in which the draft version of this text was used. The math was not as difficult as some of the graduate texts, therefore it serves as a good intoduction for someone with as little as 2 years of undergraduate math. The challenges at the end of each chapter are more difficult than the regular problems, but they are meant to be. Many of the systems can be modeled ...             Prehistoric Art: The Symbolic Journey of Humankind5 reviews Randall White Harry N. Abrams, 2003 compared to "Journey through the Ice Age" I wasn't sure whether this book or "Journey Through the Ice Age" by Paul G. Bahn would be better, so I bought them both. It turns out that they are both excellent books. Both are loaded with color photographs of artifacts famous and less well-known. Both have scholarly, informative text, considering anthropological and historical contexts, the techniques and materials used by the artists, the ...              search for books applications, biblically, cambridge, civilization, complexity, computability, computation, computing, dynamical, fundamentals, humankind, improving, introduction, introductions, mathematical, mathematics, philosophy, practical, prehistoric, reinterpretation, religious, scientific, shakespeare, structure, structures, techniques, technology, theoretical, understanding, unlocking books:    Kindle - Amazon's New Wireless Reading Device This is the future of book reading. 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