num_pages: 367
description: "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 nonlineari- ties abound. Similarly, all kinds of parts of mathematics serve as tools for other parts and for other sci- ences. Applying a simple rewriting rule to the quote on the right above one finds such statements 'One ser- vice 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.
language: English
title: Probability Theory and Applications: Essays to the Memory of József Mogyoródi
titlecomplete: Probability Theory and Applications: Essays to the Memory of József Mogyoródi (Mathematics and Its Applications, 80)
publisher: Springer