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How mathematicians think: using ambiguity, contradiction, and paradox to create mathemathics
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...
Autor principal: | Byers, William |
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Lenguaje: | eng |
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Princeton Univ. Press
2007
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Acceso en línea: | http://cds.cern.ch/record/1271087 |
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