How Mathematicians Think: Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics

by WilliamByers (Author)

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  Paperback
  2010

  $25.49

  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. This book reveals that mathematics is a profoundly creative activity and not just a body of formalized rules and results.