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William ByersPublication Details
BookPrinceton University Press2007Availability
LOCATION CALL # STATUS (LOWER LEVEL) BF456.N7 B94 2007 AVAILABLE New Feature: Text this to your cellphone
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Description
A unique examination of this less-familiar aspect of mathematics, How Mathematicians Think reveals that mathematics is a profoundly creative activity and not just a body of formalized rules and results. The creative dimensions of mathematical work have great implications for our notions of mathematical and scientific truth, and How Mathematicians Think provides a novel approach to many fundamental questions. (automatically summarized from Amazon.com)Subject
Contents
- Turing on the light
- The light of ambiguity. Ambiguity in mathematics
- The contradictory in mathematics
- Paradoxes and mathematics : infinity and the real numbers
- More paradoxes of infinity : geometry, cardinality, and beyond
- The light as idea. The idea as an organizing principle
- Ideas, logic, and paradox
- Great ideas
- The light and the eye of the beholder. The truth of mathematics
- Conclusion : is mathematics algorithmic or creative?
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- 9780691127385
- 0691127387
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