Fuzzy Sets Theory Preliminary: Can a Washing Machine Think?

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This basic book has been used at the middle schools in Shanghai, China for more than 10 years. The book presents carefully-selected contents in order to achieve the roles of enlightenment and popularization. It mainly includes: Chapter 1: Human Brains, Computers and Fuzzy Mathematics; Chapter 2: Matrix, Fuzzy Relations and Fuzzy Matrix; Chapter 3: Fuzzy Control; Chapter 4: Fuzzy Statistics and Fuzzy Probability and Chapter 5: Fuzzy Linear Programming. It includes at the end of each chapter concise, interesting and profound reading and thinking materials, and a certain amount of exercises so as to make it an informative and interesting textbook. This book can be used not only as a textbook in senior middle schools, and in vocational colleges, but also as a primer for individually learning fuzzy mathematics. Front Matter ....Pages i-xxv Human Brain, Computer and Fuzzy Mathematics (Hao-Ran Lin, Bing-Yuan Cao, Yun-zhang Liao)....Pages 1-39 Matrix, Fuzzy Relation and Fuzzy Matrix (Hao-Ran Lin, Bing-Yuan Cao, Yun-zhang Liao)....Pages 41-71 Fuzzy Control (Hao-Ran Lin, Bing-Yuan Cao, Yun-zhang Liao)....Pages 73-108 Fuzzy Statistics and Fuzzy Probability (Hao-Ran Lin, Bing-Yuan Cao, Yun-zhang Liao)....Pages 109-134 Fuzzy Linear Programming (Hao-Ran Lin, Bing-Yuan Cao, Yun-zhang Liao)....Pages 135-148 Back Matter ....Pages 149-150