The Mathematical Experience - Philip J. Davis
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We tend to think of mathematics as uniquely rigorous, and of mathematicians as supremely smart. In his introduction to The Mathematical Experience, Gian-Carlo Rota notes that instead, "a mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof ... is more often than not a way of making sure that our minds are not playing tricks." Philip Davis and Reuben Hersh discuss everything from the nature of proof to the Euclid myth, and mathematical ae...
We tend to think of mathematics as uniquely rigorous, and of mathematicians as supremely smart. In his introduction to The Mathematical Experience, Gian-Carlo Rota notes that instead, "a mathematician's work is mostly a tangle of guesswork, analogy, wishful thinking and frustration, and proof ... is more often than not a way of making sure that our minds are not playing tricks." Philip Davis and Reuben Hersh discuss everything from the nature of proof to the Euclid myth, and mathematical ae...
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1981 Uitgever: Harvester Press 440 paginas Taal: Engels ISBN-10: 0710803648 ISBN-13: 9780710803641Koop dit boek tweedehands
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(XIX) 440 p. Bound in the publisher's grey cloth with yellow-coloured pictorial dustjacket (In good condition.) Brighton, The Harvester Press Limited 1981 [Auteur: Davis, Philip J./Hersh, Reuben] [Jaar: 1981] [Titel: The Mathematical Experience]