| Description |
1 online resource (xlvi, 242 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
What is mathematics? Mathematics and common sense : relations and contrasts -- How common sense impacts mathematical reasoning : some very simple problems -- Where is mathematical knowledge lodged, and where does it come from? -- What is mathematical intuition? -- Are people hard-wired to do mathematics? -- Why counting is impossible -- Quantification in today's world -- When should one add two numbers? -- Category dilemmas -- Deductive mathematics -- Mathematics brings forth entities whose existence is counterintuitive -- "In principle we can?" : mathematical existentialism -- Mathematical proof and its discontents -- The logic of mathematics can spawn monsters -- Rules and their exceptions -- If mathematics says "no" does it really mean it? -- Inconsistencies and their virtues -- On ambiguity in mathematics -- Mathematical evidence : why i believe a theorem -- Simplicity, complexity, beauty -- The decline and resurgence of the visual in mathematics -- When is a problem solved? -- What is meant by the word "random"? -- The paradox of "hitting it big" -- Probability and common sense : a second look -- Astrology as early applied mathematics -- Mumbo math -- Math mixes it up with baseball -- Mickey flies the stealth: mathematics, war and entertainment -- The media and mathematics look at each other -- Platonism vs. social constructivism -- Mathematics at the razor's edge |
| Summary |
The Mathematical Intelligencer, May 2008 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical -- Methodology
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Reasoning.
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Common sense.
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Knowledge, Theory of.
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epistemology.
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MATHEMATICS -- General.
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Common sense
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Knowledge, Theory of
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Reasoning
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2006012622 |
| ISBN |
9781439864326 |
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1439864322 |
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