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Byers, William, (1943-)

How mathematicians thinkusing ambiguity, contradiction, and paradox to create mathematics /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	How mathematicians thinkWilliam Byers.
Reminder of title:	using ambiguity, contradiction, and paradox to create mathematics /
Author:	Byers, William,
Published:	Princeton :Princeton University Press,c2007.
Description:	1 online resource (vii, 415 p.) :ill.
Subject:	MathematiciansPsychology.
Online resource:	http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt7s98c
ISBN:	9781400833955 (electronic bk.)

How mathematicians thinkusing ambiguity, contradiction, and paradox to create mathematics /
Byers, William,1943-

How mathematicians thinkusing ambiguity, contradiction, and paradox to create mathematics /[electronic resource] :William Byers. - Princeton :Princeton University Press,c2007. - 1 online resource (vii, 415 p.) :ill.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 399-405) and index.

Acknowledgments --ch. 1 --

"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 paradox. 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."--Jacket.

ISBN: 9781400833955 (electronic bk.)

Source: 22573/cttz10zJSTORSubjects--Topical Terms:

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Mathematicians
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LC Class. No.: BF456.N7 / B94 2010

Dewey Class. No.: 510.92

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