Mathematics in Crisis.

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Mathematics and Chess

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Mathematics for all : playing mathematically.

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Language and mathematics : an interdisciplinary guide / Marcel Danesi. by Danesi, Marcel, 1946-

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Misery's Mathematics : Mourning, Compensation and Reality in Antebellum American. by Balaam, Peter

Table of Contents: “…Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Acknowledgments; Introduction: "Misery's Mathematics"; 1 "The Laws of Our Learning": Emerson's Grief and the Geological Principles of Loss; 2 Playing with Water: Thrill and Theodicy in The Wide, Wide World; 3 Representing Grief, Mourning Representation: Melville's Piazza Tales; Afterword: Soldering the Abyss: The Possibilities of Compensation; Notes; Works Cited; Index.…”
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Mathematics and humor / John Allen Paulos. by Paulos, John Allen

Table of Contents: “…1. Mathematics and Humor; 2. Axioms, Levels and Iteration; 3. …”
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Mathematics of Language : Proceedings of a Conference Held at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 1984. by Manaster-Ramer, Alexis

Table of Contents: “…MATHEMATICS OF LANGUAGE; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; INTRODUCTION; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY, MATHEMATICAL LINGUISTICS, AND LINGUISTIC THEORY; 1. …”
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Mathematical Linguistics by András Kornai. by Kornai, András, 1957-

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Teaching Mathematics Collection.

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Mathematical Methods in Linguistics / by Barbara H. Partee, Alice Meulen, Robert E. Wall. by Partee, Barbara H.

Table of Contents: “…MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN LINGUISTICS -- Studies in Linguistics and Philosophy Volume 30 -- MATHEMATICAL METHODS IN LINGUISTICS corrected second printing of the first edition -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- List of Symbols -- Preface -- Part A SET THEORY -- Chapter 1 Basic Concepts of Set Theory -- Chapter 2 Relations and Functions -- Chapter 3 Properties of Relations -- Chapter 4 Infinities -- Appendix A Set-Theoretic Reconstruction of Number Systems -- Review Exercises -- Part B LOGIC AND FORMAL SYSTEMS -- Chapter 5 Basic Concepts of Logic and Formal Systems -- Chapter 6 Statement Logic -- Chapter 7 Predicate Logic -- Chapter 8 Formal Systems, Axiomatization, and Model Theory -- Appendix B-I Alternative Notations and Connectives -- Appendix B-II Kleene's Three-valued Logic -- Review Exercises -- Part C ALGEBRA -- Chapter 9 Basic Concepts of Algebra -- Chapter 10 Operational Structures -- Chapter 11 Lattices -- Chapter 12 Boolean and Heyting Algebras -- Review Exercises -- Part D ENGLISH AS A FORMAL LANGUAGE -- Chapter 13 Basic Concepts -- Chapter 14 Generalized Quantifiers -- Chapter 15 Intensionality -- Part E LANGUAGES, GRAMMARS, AND AUTOMATA -- Chapter 16 Basic Concepts -- Chapter 17 Finite Automata, Regular Languages and Type 3 Grammars -- Chapter 18 Pushdown Automata, Context Free Grammars and Languages -- Chapter 19 Turing Machines, Recursively Enumerable Languages and Type 0 Grammars -- Chapter 20 Linear Bounded Automata, Context Sensitive Languages and Type 1 Grammars -- Chapter 21 Languages Between Context Free and Context Sensitive -- Chapter 22 Transformational Grammars -- Appendix E-I The Chomsky Hierarchy -- Appendix E-II Semantic Automata -- Review Exercises -- Solutions to selected exercises -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Issues in Mathematical Linguistics : Workshop on Mathematical Linguistics, State College, PA, April 1998. by Martín-Vide, Carlos

Table of Contents: “…ISSUES IN MATHEMATICAL LINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Foreword; Table of contents; List of Contributors; Commands as Binary Relations; Generalized Minimalist Grammars; An Infinite Hierarchy of Mildly Context-Sensitive Families of Languages; Some Uses and Abuses of Mathematics in Linguistics; Logical Splicing in Natural Languages; X-Families: An Approach to the Study of Families of Syntactically Similar Languages; Overparsing; Computational Complexity in Language Models; Grammar Efficiency and the Historical Development of Word Order in French; Author Index.…”
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The elements of mathematical semantics / by Maurice V. Aldridge. by Aldridge, M. V. (Maurice Vincent)

Table of Contents: “…1 Some topics in semantics -- 1.1 Aims of this study -- 1.2 Mathematical linguistics -- 1.3 A functional view of meaning -- 1.4 Truth conditions and truth values -- 1.5 Counterfactuals -- 1.6 Compositionality and syntax -- 1.7 Pragmatics -- 1.8 Propositional relations -- 1.9 Ambiguity -- 1.10 Formal logic and natural languages -- 1.11 Universal semantics -- 2 Background notions from mathematics -- 2.1 Purpose of this chapter -- 2.2 Sets -- 2.3 The cardinality of a set -- 2.4 Product sets -- 2.5 Relations and functions -- 2.6 Equivalence relations…”
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The mathematics of syntactic structure : trees and their logics / edited by Hans-Peter Kolb, Uwe Mönnich.

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Early Mathematical Thinking.

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Adding talk to the equation : discussion and discovery in mathematics. by West, Lucy

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The Mathematics of Games and Puzzles: From Cards to Sudoku Series.

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A mathematical grammar of English. by Hemphill, George

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Applications of the Mathematical Theory of Linguistics by Daly, Richard T.

Table of Contents: “…INTRODUCTION; 2. THE MATHEMATICAL THEORY OF LANGUAGES; 3. ARGUMENTS AGAINST THE ADEQUACY OF FINITE STATE GRAMMAR; 4. …”
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Discovering patterns in mathematics and poetry / Marcia Birken and Anne C. Coon. by Birken, Marcia

Table of Contents: “…Discovering Patterns in Mathematics and Poetry; Preface; Table of Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1 -- Counting Patterns; Chapter 2 -Counting Patterns Take Form; Chapter 3 -- Patterns of Shape; Chapter 4 -- Fractal Patterns; Chapter 5 -- Patterns for the Mind; Chapter 6 -- Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.…”
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Prague Studies in Mathematical Linguistics : Volume 7.

Table of Contents: “…PRAGUE STUDIES IN MATHEMATICAL LINGUISTICS; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Table of contents; 1 Quantitative Linguistics; ON THE LANGUAGE OF THE PRESENT-DAY PUBLICIST PROSE FROM THE QUANTITATIVE POINT OF VIEW; 1. …”
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