| 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： |
| Descartes' Dream |
| Where the Dream Stands Today |
| The Limits of Mathematics |
