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How mathematicians think : using ambiguity, contradiction, and paradox to create mathematics / William Byers.
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TextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2007.Description: 415 p. : illISBN: - 9780691127385
- 0691127387
- BF456 B993 H 2007
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MATRIX Library General Eng/FL.3 | General Books | BF456 B993 H 2007 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | C.1 | Available | 1000385234 |
Acknowledgments -- Introduction : Turning on the light -- Section 1 : 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 -- Section 2 : The light as idea -- idea as an organizing principle -- Ideas, logic, and paradox -- Great ideas -- Section 3 : The light and the eye of the beholder -- truth of mathematics -- Conclusion : is mathematics algorithmic or creative? -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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