The paperback of the critically-acclaimed popular science book by a writer who is fast becoming a celebrity mathematician. Prime numbers are the very atoms of arithmetic. They also embody one of the most tantalising enigmas in the pursuit of human knowledge. How can one predict when the next prime number will occur? Is there a formula which could generate primes? These apparen...(展开全部)

Since 1859, when the shy German mathematician Bernhard Riemann wrote an eight-page article giving a possible answer to a problem that had tormented mathematical minds for centuries, the world's greatest mathematicians have been fascinated, infuriated, and obsessed with proving the Riemann hypothesis. They speak of it in awed terms and consider it to be an even more difficult pr...(展开全部)

In 1859, German mathematician Bernhard Riemann presented a paper to the Berlin Academy that would forever change the history of mathematics. The subject was the mystery of prime numbers. At the heart of the presentation was an idea that Riemann had not yet proved but one that baffles mathematicians to this day.</p> Solving the Riemann Hypothesis could change the way we do b...(展开全部)

In 1859, Bernhard Riemann, a little-known thirty-two year old mathematician, made a hypothesis while presenting a paper to the Berlin Academy titled “On the Number of Prime Numbers Less Than a Given Quantity.” Today, after 150 years of careful research and exhaustive study, the Riemann Hyphothesis remains unsolved, with a one-million-dollar prize earmarked for the first person ...(展开全部)

根据所受的教育，约翰·德比希尔（John Derbyshire）是一位数学家和语言学家；根据所从事的职业，他是一位系统分析师；而在业余时间，他是一位著名的作家。 他的成名作是《梦见柯立芝》（Seeing Calvin Coolidge in a Dream），这部l996年出版的小说大受人们欢迎，亚德利（Jonathan Yardley）在《华盛顿邮报·图书世界》（Washington Post Book World）上对它赞赏有加，《纽约时报·书评》（The New York Times Book Review）、《纽约客》（The New Yorker）、《波士顿环球报》（The Bosun Globe）等报刊也一致给予好评。他的作品还频繁出现在《国家评论》（National Review）和《新标准》（The New Criterion）杂志上...(展开全部)

自古以来，人们总是问自己这样的问题“作为人类有何意义？”历经历史和地理的变迁，不同的文化也给出了截然不同的答案，由每个文化的神话、民间故事、精神传统和艺术、社会背景来组成。在 The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World中，人类学家和国家地理探险家Wade Davis通过探寻古代的灿烂文化和历史，从亚马逊的遗失文明到尼泊尔佛教的45年朝圣，他以一种诺亚方舟的文化多样性冲击，来编制了一关于人类文明和创造的锦缎以及构建了未来人类的遗产蓝图。

This lucid and comprehensive essay by a distinguished philosopher surveys the views of Plato, Aristotle, Leibniz, and Kant on the nature of mathematics. It examines the propositions and theories of the schools these philosophers inspired, and it concludes by discussing the relationship between mathematical theories, empirical data, and philosophical presuppositions. 1968 editio...(展开全部)

杰瑞·艾伦·福多(Jerry Alan Fodor,1935-2017)，美国哲学家，曾任教于麻省理工学院、纽约城市大学、罗格斯大学。1993年获首届尼可德奖。他的研究涵盖了心灵哲学、语言哲学、认知哲学等诸多领域。代表作有《思维语言》(1975）、《心理模块性》（1983）、《心理语义学：心灵哲学中的意义问题》（1987）等。 宋荣，华中师范大学教授、博士生导师。主要研究方向为逻辑学、心灵哲学、科技哲学、分析的马克思主义。 宋琴，华中师范大学讲师。主要研究方向为金融投资、风险管理、经济逻辑。 周慧君，华中师范大学英语语言文学专业硕士，主要研究方向为英美文学。

Psychosemantics explores the relation between commonsense psychological theories and problems that are central to semantics and the philosophy of language. Building on and extending Fodor's earlier work it puts folk psychology on firm theoretical ground and rebuts externalist, holist, and naturalist threats to its position<br /> <br /> Jerry A. Fodor is Professor of Philosophy ...(展开全部)