Mathematics is distinguished from the sciences by the freedom it enjoys in choosing basic assumptions from which consequences can be deduced by applying the laws of logic. We call the basic ...

Rationality postulates for preferences are developed from two basic decision theoretic principles, namely: (1) the logic of preference is determined by paradigmatic cases in which preferences are ...

A STRONG committee, appointed, or rather re-appointed, for the purpose, reported last year to the British Association upon the Syllabus drawn up by the Association for the Improvement of Geometrical ...

Axioms and Postulates of IIT IIT proposes five axioms and five corresponding postulates (for clarity, the following is a simplified paraphrased version 5). Axioms of IIT: These are asserted as ...

IN reference to the controversy between Mr. Spencer and his reviewer about Sir I. Newton's calling his laws of motion “axioms,” it is to be observed that there is a certain ambiguity in the word.

They make a great title for a speculators' manual, but how do the Zurich axioms - originally framed in the 1940s - shape up in today's world? Your publisher will tell you. The most important thing ...

Axioms and Postulates of IIT IIT proposes five axioms and five corresponding postulates (for clarity, the following is a simplified paraphrased version 5). Axioms of IIT: These are asserted as ...