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- catalog abstract "Discusses the impact that mathematics and computers have on our intellectual and emotional lives.".
- catalog contributor b697887.
- catalog contributor b697888.
- catalog created "c1986.".
- catalog date "1986".
- catalog date "c1986.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "c1986.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 307-315.".
- catalog description "Discusses the impact that mathematics and computers have on our intellectual and emotional lives.".
- catalog description "This Mathematized World -- Descartes' Dream -- Where the Dream Stands Today -- The Limits of Mathematics -- Are We Drowning in Digits? -- The Stochastized World: A Matter of Style? -- Feedback and Control: The Equilibrium Machine -- Computer Graphics and the Possibility of High Art -- The Social Tyranny of Numbers -- Mathematics and Rhetoric -- The Criterion Makers: Mathematics and Social Policy -- The Computerization of Love -- Testing -- Mathematics as a Social Filter -- A "Marxian" Analysis of the Role of Computing in Organizations -- Cognition and Computation -- The Descriptive, Predictive, and Prescriptive Functions of Applied Mathematics -- The Intellectual Components of Technology, Mathematics and Computation: Four Lists -- Metathinking as a Way of Life -- Three Meanings of Computation -- What Scientific Computation is for -- Why Should I Believe a Computer: Computation as Process and Product -- The Whorfian Hypothesis: Ends and Means in Computer Languages -- The Programming Milieu -- Perspectives Through Time -- Of Time and Mathematics -- Non-Euclidean Geometry and Ethical Relativism -- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Computers. Are We Hooked? -- Mathematics and Ethics -- Platonic Mathematics Meets Platonic Philosophy of Religion: An Ethical Metaphor -- The Computer Thinks: An Interpretation in the Medieval Mode -- Mathematics and the End of the World -- Personal Meanings -- Mathematics and Imposed Reality -- Loss of Meaning through Intellectual Processes: Mathematical Abstraction -- Envoi.".
- catalog extent "xvii, 321 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Descartes' dream.".
- catalog identifier "0151252602".
- catalog isFormatOf "Descartes' dream.".
- catalog issued "1986".
- catalog issued "c1986.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "San Diego : Harcourt Brace Jovanovich,".
- catalog relation "Descartes' dream.".
- catalog subject "510/.1 19".
- catalog subject "Computers and civilization.".
- catalog subject "Mathematics Philosophy.".
- catalog subject "Mathematics Social aspects.".
- catalog subject "QA8.6 .D39 1986".
- catalog tableOfContents "This Mathematized World -- Descartes' Dream -- Where the Dream Stands Today -- The Limits of Mathematics -- Are We Drowning in Digits? -- The Stochastized World: A Matter of Style? -- Feedback and Control: The Equilibrium Machine -- Computer Graphics and the Possibility of High Art -- The Social Tyranny of Numbers -- Mathematics and Rhetoric -- The Criterion Makers: Mathematics and Social Policy -- The Computerization of Love -- Testing -- Mathematics as a Social Filter -- A "Marxian" Analysis of the Role of Computing in Organizations -- Cognition and Computation -- The Descriptive, Predictive, and Prescriptive Functions of Applied Mathematics -- The Intellectual Components of Technology, Mathematics and Computation: Four Lists -- Metathinking as a Way of Life -- Three Meanings of Computation -- What Scientific Computation is for -- Why Should I Believe a Computer: Computation as Process and Product -- The Whorfian Hypothesis: Ends and Means in Computer Languages -- The Programming Milieu -- Perspectives Through Time -- Of Time and Mathematics -- Non-Euclidean Geometry and Ethical Relativism -- The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Computers. Are We Hooked? -- Mathematics and Ethics -- Platonic Mathematics Meets Platonic Philosophy of Religion: An Ethical Metaphor -- The Computer Thinks: An Interpretation in the Medieval Mode -- Mathematics and the End of the World -- Personal Meanings -- Mathematics and Imposed Reality -- Loss of Meaning through Intellectual Processes: Mathematical Abstraction -- Envoi.".
- catalog title "Descartes' dream : the world according to mathematics / Philip J. Davis, Reuben Hersh.".
- catalog type "text".