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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Galambos, Janos
• Kátai, Imre

Titel

Probability Theory and Applications : Essays to the Memory of József Mogyoródi [Elektronische Ressource]

Ist Teil von

• Mathematics and Its Applications : 80

Ort / Verlag

Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands

Erscheinungsjahr

1992

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Beschreibungen/Notizen

• "Et moi, ... , si j'avait su comment en revenir, je One service mathematics bas rendered the human race. It bas put common sense back n'y serais point all~.' where it belongs, on the topmost shelf next to lu1esVeme the dusty canister labelled 'discarded nonsense'~ Eric T. Bell 1be series is divergent; therefore we may be able to do something with it O. Heaviside Mathematics is a tool for thought. A highly necessary tool in a world where both feedback and nonlinearities abound. Similarly, all kinds of parts of mathematics serve as tools for other parts and for other sciences. Applying a simple rewriting rule to the quote on the right above one finds such statements as: 'One service topology has rendered mathematical physics ... '; 'One service logic has rendered computer science .. .'; 'One service category theory has rendered mathematics .. .'. All arguably true. And all statements obtainable this way form part of the raison d 'etre of this series