Abstract Measurement Theory

by Louis Narens

The need for quantitative measurement represents a unifying bond that links all the physical, biological, and social sciences. Measurements of such disparate phenomena as subatomic masses, uncertainty, information, and human values share common features whose explication is central to the achievement of foundational work in any particular mathematical science as well as for the development of a coherent philosophy of science. This book presents a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262140373
• ISBN13: 9780262140379
• Release Date: January 1985
• Publisher: MIT Press (MA)
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.