Preface |
Acknowledgements |
This Mathematized World / I: |
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 |
The Social Tyranny of Numbers / II: |
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 |
Cognition and Computation / III: |
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 |
Perspectives Through Time / IV: |
Of Time and Mathematics |
Non-Euclidean Geometry and Ethical Relativism |
The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Computers. Are We Hooked? |
Mathematics and Ethics / V: |
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 |
Personal Meanings / VI: |
Mathematics and Imposed Reality |
Loss of Meaning through Intellectual Processes: Mathematical Abstraction |
Envoi / VII: |
Bibliography |
Index |
Preface |
Acknowledgements |
This Mathematized World / I: |