Byers, William, <br/><br/>
How mathematicians think :  using ambiguity, contradiction, and paradox to create mathematics / 
William Byers. 
 - Princeton :  Princeton University Press,  2007. 
 - 415 p. :  ill. 
<br/><br/> 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.  HKBU library 
<br/><br/> YT2025 M10 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780691127385 0691127387 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Mathematicians--Psychology.<br/>Mathematics--Psychological aspects.<br/>Mathematics--Philosophy.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>BF456  / B993 H 2007