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Imagination and Rigor: Their Interaction Along the Way to Measuring Fuzziness and Doing Other Strange Things

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Termini, S. (2006). Imagination and Rigor: Their Interaction Along the Way to Measuring Fuzziness and Doing Other Strange Things. In: Termini, S. (eds) Imagination and Rigor. Springer, Milano. https://doi.org/10.1007/88-470-0472-1_13

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