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Ahmes’ Legacy : Puzzles and the Mathematical Mind / by Marcel Danesi

By: Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Mathematics in Mind | Springer eBook Collection | SpringerLink BücherPublisher: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018Description: Online-Ressource (XIII, 164 p. 99 illus, online resource)ISBN:
  • 9783319932545
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9783319932538 | 9783319932552 | Erscheint auch als: 978-3-319-93253-8 Druck-Ausgabe | Printed edition: 9783319932538 | Printed edition: 9783319932552 DDC classification:
  • 519
MSC: MSC: *92-02 | 92C20 | 92B20 | 91E99 | 01A99LOC classification:
  • QA76.87
DOI: DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-93254-5Online resources: Summary: This book looks at classic puzzles from the perspective of their structures and what they tell us about the brain. It uses the work on the neuroscience of mathematics from Dehaene, Butterworth, Lakoff, Núñez, and many others as a lens to understand the ways in which puzzles reflect imaginative processes blended with rational ones. The book is not about recreational or puzzle-based mathematics in and of itself but rather about what the classic puzzles tell us about the mathematical imagination and its impact on the discipline. It delves into the history of classic math puzzles, deconstructing their raison d’être and describing their psychological features, so that their nature can be fleshed out in order to help understand the mathematical mind. This volume is the first monographic treatment of the psychological nature of puzzles in mathematics. With its user-friendly technical level of discussion, it is of interest to both general readers and those who engage in the disciplines of mathematics, psychology, neuroscience, and/or anthropology. It is also ideal as a textbook source for courses in recreational mathematics, or as reference material in introductory college math coursesSummary: 1. Puzzles and Mathematics -- 2. An Archetype Theory of Puzzles -- 3. Puzzles and Discovery -- 4. Puzzles and Spatial Reasoning -- 5. The Mathematical Mind -- References -- IndexPPN: PPN: 1030112762Package identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-2-SEB | ZDB-2-SMA | ZDB-2-SXMS
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