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HOW MATHEMATICIANS THINK - Using Ambiguity Contradiction and Paradox to Create Mathematics

by Byers, William

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Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 2007. Book. Near Fine. Hardcover. Later Printing. 8vo. (vii) 415 pp. Blue cloth lettered in gilt on the spine; headband; illustrated with diagrams. Light rubbing at the corners of the dustjacket; price intact; no interior markings. The Contents are: Introduction: Turning on the Light; The Light of Ambiguity: Ambiguity 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; and Conclusion: Is Mathematics Algorithmic or Creative; followed by an index..
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  • ISBN 10 0691127387
  • ISBN 13 9780691127385
  • Publisher Princeton University Press
  • Place of Publication Princeton, New Jersey
  • Date Published 2007
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  • Keywords concordia; montreal; professor; arithmetic; math;
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