- Symbolic and mathematical Logic, Textbooks, Philosophy, Mathematics
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Spare, cool, warm and earnest.
- sparerichly built
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
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About the book
- Author
- George Pólya
- First published
- 1954
- Pages
- 280
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, Birkhauser, Springer
- Editions
- 39
- Language
- German, English
- ISBN
- 9780691086408
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First sentence
“In the first volume of this work on Induction and Analogy in Mathematics we found some opportunity to familiarize ourselves with the practice of plausible reasoning.”
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