How Mathematicians Think : Using Ambiguity, Contradiction, and Paradox to Create Mathematics /
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...
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2010]
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