Indeholder "Preface", "Acknowledgments", "I. This Mathematized World", " Descartes' Dream", " Where the Dream Stands Today", " The Limits of Mathematics", " Are We Drowning in Digits?", " The Stochastized World: A Matter of Style?", " Feedback and Control: The Equilibrium Machine", " Computer Graphics and the Possibility of High Art", "II. The Social Tyranny of Numbers", " Mathematics and Rhetoric", " The Criterion Makers: Mathematics and Social Policy", " The Computerization of Love", " Testing", " Mathematics as a Social Filter", " A "Marxian" Analysis of the Role of Computing in Organizations", "III. Cognition and Computation", " The Descriptive, Predictive, and Prescriptive Functions of Applied Mathematics", " The Intellectual Components of Technology, Mathematics and Computation: Four Lists", " Metathinking as a Way of Life", " Three Meanings of Computation", " What Scientific Computation is for", " Why Should I Believe a Computer: Computation as Process and Product", " The Whorfian Hypothesis: Ends and Means in Computer Languages", " The Programming Milieu", "IV. Perspectives Through Time", " Of Time and Mathematics", " Non-Euclidean Geometry and Ethical Relativism", " The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Computers. Are We Hooked?", "V. Mathematics and Ethics", " Platonic Mathematics Meets Platonic Philosophy of Religion: An Ethical Metaphor", " The Computer Thinks: An Interpretation in the Medieval Mode", " Mathematics and the End of the World", "VI. Personal Meanings", " Mathematics and Imposed Reality", " Loss of Meaning through Intellectual Processes: Mathematical Abstraction", "VII. Envoi", "Bibliography", "Index".

En samling essays, der typisk ikke er ret dybe. "Computere kan nu også tegne, mon det er godt eller skidt?". Dvs det ligner en gang snik-snak. Suppleret med en del billeder, der måske / måske-ikke har noget med emnet at gøre. Descartes drøm var en drøm om at forene alle videnskaber i én. Og bogen her spekulerer over om fremkomsten af computere er ved at gøre det. ( )

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Reflections on mathematical thinking, from the transitional period of the 1980s when computers were changing the everyday practice of mathematics. ( )