{"product_id":"apos-a-bomba","title":"After the Bomb","description":"\u003cp\u003eI was ten years old when my father, a Mathematics teacher at Pedro Nunes High School, opened Bertrand Russell's Introduction to Mathematical Philosophy (1919) and read me his definition of number: \"The number of a class (set) is the class of all classes similar to it.\" And he explained to me: what do three books, a Beethoven trio, and the Holy Trinity have in common? The number 3!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom that moment on, Lord Russell – mathematician, philosopher, activist, and future Nobel Prize winner for Literature in 1950 – became part of my life. In Oxford, I devoured the three volumes of his autobiography published successively in 1967-69. I learned the Liberal Decalogue that Lord Russell, \"as a teacher, would like to promulgate.\" The 9th commandment always impressed me: \"Be scrupulously truthful, even if the truth is inconvenient, for it is even more inconvenient when you try to conceal it.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat's what I aimed to do throughout this After the Bomb. As for the 1st commandment, \"Do not feel absolutely certain of anything,\" it defines scientific thought. As I put the final period on this book, I have only one certainty: if all science is an infinite epic poem, the Russellian definition of number is the most beautiful of all verses.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ch3\u003eWork Details:\u003c\/h3\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\n\n\u003cstrong\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/strong\u003e Jorge Calado\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\n\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Gradiva\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\u003cli\u003e\n\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 312\u003c\/li\u003e\n\n\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Gradiva","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53881568788808,"sku":"9789897854378","price":18.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/tradebycda.pt\/en\/products\/apos-a-bomba","provider":"Trade by CdA","version":"1.0","type":"link"}