A guide to the practical art of plausible reasoning, this book has relevance in every field of intellectual activity. Professor Polya, a world-famous mathematician from Stanford University, uses mathematics to show how hunches and guesses play an important part in even the most rigorously deductive science. He explains how solutions to problems can be guessed at; good guessing is often more important than rigorous deduction in finding correct solutions. Vol. II, on Patterns of Plausible Inference, attempts to develop a logic of plausibility. What makes some evidence stronger and some weaker? How does one seek evidence that will make a suspected truth more probable? These questions involve philosophy and psychology as well as mathematics.
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Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning, Volume 2
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Publisher
Princeton University PressYear
2021Print ISBN
9780691025100
9780691086392
eBook ISBN
9781400823727
Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Preface
- Hints to the Reader
- Contents
- Chapter XII. Some Conspicuous Patterns
- Chapter XIII. Further Patterns and First Links
- Chapter XIV. Chance, The Ever-Present Rival Conjecture
- Chapter XV. The Calculus of Probability and the Logic of Plausible Reasoning
- Chapter XVI. Plausible Reasoning in Invention and Instruction
- Solutions to Problems
- Bibliography
- Appendix
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