塞缪尔•阿贝斯曼（Samuel Arbesman） 知名的应用数学家、网络科学学家、考夫曼基金会（Kaufmann Foundation）的资深学者、哈佛大学定量社会科学研究所研究员。文章屡见于《纽约时报》、《大西洋月刊》、《连线》、《新科学家》、《波士顿城市杂志》等重要报章。

塞缪尔•阿贝斯曼（Samuel Arbesman） 知名的应用数学家、网络科学学家、考夫曼基金会（Kaufmann Foundation）的资深学者、哈佛大学定量社会科学研究所研究员。文章屡见于《纽约时报》、《大西洋月刊》、《连线》、《新科学家》、《波士顿城市杂志》等重要报章。

塞缪尔•阿贝斯曼（Samuel Arbesman） 知名的应用数学家、网络科学学家、考夫曼基金会（Kaufmann Foundation）的资深学者、哈佛大学定量社会科学研究所研究员。文章屡见于《纽约时报》、《大西洋月刊》、《连线》、《新科学家》、《波士顿城市杂志》等重要报章。

塞缪尔•阿贝斯曼（Samuel Arbesman） 知名的应用数学家、网络科学学家、考夫曼基金会（Kaufmann Foundation）的资深学者、哈佛大学定量社会科学研究所研究员。文章屡见于《纽约时报》、《大西洋月刊》、《连线》、《新科学家》、《波士顿城市杂志》等重要报章。

From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. What is the nature of the transaction between Google's computer algorithms and its millions of human users? Are we heading down a path toward a more enlightened age, or are we approaching a dystopia of social control and surveillance? With these and other questions, University of Virginia media studies and law professor Vaidhyanathan thoug...(展开全部)

In 1963, in a Siberian prison, former nuclear specialist Valery Kolkhanov has mastered what it takes to survive: the right connections to the guards for access to food and cigarettes, the right pair of warm boots, and the right attitude toward the small pleasures of life so he won't go insane. But one day, all that changes: Valery's university mentor steps in and sweeps him fro...(展开全部)

In the 18th century, the British minister and mathematician Thomas Bayes devised a theorem that allowed him to assign probabilities to events that had never happened before. It languished in obscurity for centuries until computers came along and made it easy to crunch the numbers. Now, as the foundation of big data, Bayes' formula has become a linchpin of the digital economy. B...(展开全部)

Compact yet more comprehensive than similar texts, WHAT CAN WE KNOW? analyzes the central topics of truth, justification ranging from skepticism to religious belief. Written in the author's friendly and conversational style without unnecessary jargon, the text makes the subject matter more accessible and inviting to students.

This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist. Drawing on recent work in literary criticism, the authors study how the social world of the laboratory produces papers and other "texts," and how the scientific vision of reality becomes that set of statements considered, for the...(展开全部)

This highly original work presents laboratory science in a deliberately skeptical way: as an anthropological approach to the culture of the scientist. Drawing on recent work in literary criticism, the authors study how the social world of the laboratory produces papers and other "texts," and how the scientific vision of reality becomes that set of statements considered, for the...(展开全部)