4315.  (Filosofia - Scienza - Matematica)
WHITEHEAD Alfred N.
Essays in science and philosophy
London, Rider and Company, 1948.

Euro 45,00

In-8°, pp. 255, legatura in tela editoriale con titoli al dorso. Indice - Contents: Part I. Personal. Autobiographical Notes; Memories; The education of an Englishman; England and the Narrow Seas; An Appeal to Santity. Part II. Philosophy. Immortality; Mathematics and the Good; Process and Reality; John Dewey and his Influence; Analysis of Meaning; Uniformity and Contingency. Part III. Education. The Study of the Past-its Uses and its Dangers; Education and Self-Education; Mathematics and Liberal Education; Science and General Education; Historical Changes; Harvard: the Future. Part IV. Science. The First Physical Synthesis; Axioms of Geometry; Mathematics; Non-Euclidean Geometry; Indication, Classes, Numbers, Validation; Einstein's Theory.