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How Mathematicians Think: Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics
How Mathematicians Think Using Ambiguity Contradiction and Paradox to Create Mathematics
Author: William Byers
To many outsiders, mathematicians appear to think like computers, grimly grinding away with a strict formal logic and moving methodically--even algorithmically--from one black-and-white deduction to another. Yet mathematicians often describe their most important breakthroughs as creative, intuitive responses to ambiguity, contradiction, and para...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780691127385
ISBN-10: 0691127387
Publication Date: 5/7/2007
Pages: 425
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Publisher: Princeton University Press
Book Type: Hardcover
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