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By David H. Krantz, R. Duncan Luce, Patrick Suppes, Amos Tversky

All of the sciences — actual, organic, and social — have a necessity for quantitative size. This influential sequence, Foundations of Measurement, proven the formal foundations for dimension, justifying the task of numbers to things by way of their structural correspondence.
Volume I introduces the specific mathematical effects that serve to formulate numerical representations of qualitative constructions. quantity II extends the topic towards geometrical, threshold, and probabilistic representations, and quantity III examines illustration as expressed in axiomatization and invariance.

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